Lexical Summary Paran: a place in Sinai Original Word: פָארָןTransliteration: Paran Phonetic Spelling: (paw-rawn') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a place in Sinai Meaning: Paran -- a place in Sinai Strong's Concordance Paran From pa'ar; ornamental; Paran, a desert of Arabia -- Paran. see HEBREW pa'ar Brown-Driver-Briggs H6290. Paran מָּארָן proper name, of a location Paran, Φαραν (compare proper name פארן Sinaitic Inscription); — usually פ ׳מִדְבַּר home of Ishmael Genesis 21:21 (E), traversed by Israel in Exodus Numbers 12:16 (E), 10:12; 13:2, 26 (all P); it lay northeast from (the traditional) Sinai, with Gulf of Akaba and the ± Arabah as its east border; in the same region was פ ׳הַר Deuteronomy 33:2; Habakkuk 3:3, — perhaps coast-range of mountains along west shore of Gulf of Akaba; ׳פ alone 1 Kings 11:18 (twice in verse) (between Midian and Egypt); Deuteronomy 1:1 (location dubious). — 1 Samuel 25:1 see II. מָעוֺן below עון. — See RobBR i, 177 f. PalmerDesert of Exodus, 284 ff., Di DrDt. פגג (√ of following; meaning dubious; Late Hebrew מַּגָּה unripe fig, plural מַּגִּין; so Syriac in Lexicons; Arabic unripe fruit; מַּגָּא ᵑ7 unripe grape; compare Post in HastingsDB. 'Fig' TristrNHB 352 Löwp. 391). |
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