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Reference: Padan Aram

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The flat land of Aram, contrasted with the more mountainous region of the N. and N.E. of Mesopotamia (Ho 12:12), "the field (sedeh) of Aram" (Ge 25:20), the same as Aram Naharaim, "Aram of the two rivers," or Mesopotamia. (See MESOPOTAMIA.) (Ge 24:10). Aram expresses the highland of Syria, contrasted with the lowland of Canaan. The land between Tigris and Euphrates is a vast flat, except where the Sinjar range intersects it. The home of Rebekah, Laban, etc.

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