Aram in the Bible

Meaning: highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse

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And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; now all the treasure of his master was under his hand; and he arose and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

Verse ConceptsDeparturesTen AnimalsGiving Good Things

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsNamed Sisters

Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsMarrying RelativesTaking A WifeFathers And Daughters

And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Padan-Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-Aram, to take a wife thence, blessing him, and giving him a charge saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTaking A WifePeople Who Blessed Others

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Kids

and carried away all his cattle, and all his property that he had acquired the cattle of his possessions that he had acquired in Padan-Aram, to go to Isaac his father, into the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsDriving

And Jacob came safely to the city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.

Verse ConceptsBoldness Examples OfAltars, Built ByCamp, Of Israel

And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him.

Verse ConceptsGod AppearingBlessed By God

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.

These [are] the sons of Leah that she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters [were] thirty-three persons in all.

Verse ConceptsThirty Some

As for me, when I came to Paddan-Aram Rachel died {to my sorrow} in the land of Canaan on the way when [there was] still some distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that [is], Bethlehem)."

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfUnhappiness

Thematic Bible



The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram. The sons of Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.

The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.


But Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.


Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram


The sons of Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.


He took up his discourse and said,
“From Aram Balak has brought me,
Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,
Come curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’