פָּארָן
pa.ran
Paran
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word H6290G, transliterated as "pa.ran," is a proper name with a personal connotation. It appears 9 times in the Bible. As "Paran" is a proper name of a person, rather than a location, its meaning is most likely associated with its name bearer. However, without further information from the context, we can only say that this person, Paran, plays a significant role or exists within the biblical narrative to the extent of being mentioned 9 times.
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Occurrences in Scripture
9 total occurrences across the text
He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 10:12The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
Numbers 13:26They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
Deuteronomy 1:1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
1 Samuel 25:1Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
1 Kings 11:18They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.
1 Kings 11:18They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.