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A cultivated district in Mesopotamia, in which was the city of Nahor, to which Terah and his family migrated from Ur of the Chaldees; and from whence Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel, the wives of Isaac and Jacob, were obtained. Gen. 25: 20; Gen. 28: 2-7; Gen.
31: 18; Gen. 33: 18; Gen. 35: 9, 26; Gen. 46: 15. It is strictly Paddan-aram, signifying 'table land of Aram.' Mesopotamia is the
translation of Padan-aram both in the LXX and the Vulgate. In Gen. 48: 7 it is simply PADAN.