Padan-aram

Padan-aram (pā'dun-ā'răm) [key], in the Bible, that part of Aram that lay in the Euphrates valley; it was the homeland of the Patriarchs. It also appears as Padan and, in the title of Psalm 60, Aram-naharaim.

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