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# פָּארָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6290

**Paran** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Paran [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6290/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּארָן: n.pr.loc. Paran [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6290/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Paran, Φαραν (cf. n.pr. פארן Sin. Inscr.);—usually מִדְבַּר פ׳ home of Ishmael Gn 21:21 (E), traversed by Isr. in Exodus Nu 12:16 (E), 10:12; 13:2, 26 (all P); it lay NE. from (the traditional) Sinai, with Gulf of Akaba and the ʿArabah as its E. border (s. איל פארן); here was הַר פ׳ Dt 33:2 Hb 3:3,—perhaps coast-range of mts. along W. shore of Gulf of Akaba; פ׳ alone 1 K 11:18(×2) (betw. Midian and Egypt); Dt 1:1 (loc. dub.).—1 S 25:1 v. ii. מָעוֹן sub עון.—Vid. RobBR i, 177 f. PalmerDesert of Exodus, 284 ff., Di Dr Dt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Paran (8); Paran (3).

## In the verses

[Numbers 12:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.12.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.12.16/#tree)

וְאַחַ֛ר נָסְע֥וּ הָעָ֖ם מֵחֲצֵר֑וֹת וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בְּמִדְבַּ֥ר פָּארָֽן׃פ

*Word for word:* and after they.set.out the people from Hazeroth and they.encamped in the.wilderness of.Paran

*JPS 1917:* And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

[Genesis 21:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.21/#tree)

וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּמִדְבַּ֣ר פָּארָ֑ן וַתִּֽקַּֽח־ל֥וֹ אִמּ֛וֹ אִשָּׁ֖ה מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.dwelt in the.wilderness of.Paran and she.took for him mother his a.wife from the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6290.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6290/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).