Paran: meaning of the name

Paran in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Paran

• Paran

Paran in Scripture

“Paran” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 21:21

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

• Numbers 10:12

  And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.

• Numbers 12:16

  And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

• Numbers 13:3

  And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 13:26

  And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

• Deuteronomy 1:1

  These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

• Deuteronomy 33:2

  And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.