Brown-Driver-Briggs מָּארָן proper name, of a location Paran, Φαραν (compare proper name פארן Sinaitic Inscription); — usually ׳מִדְבַּר פ home of Ishmael Genesis 21:21 (E), traversed by Israel in Exodus Numbers 12:16 (E), Numbers 10:12; Numbers 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 ׳הַר פ 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; ᵑ7 מַּגָּא unripe grape; compare Post in HastingsDB. 'Fig' TristrNHB 352 Löwp. 391). Forms and Transliterations מִפָּארָ֗ן מפארן פָּארָ֑ן פָּארָ֔ן פָּארָ֖ן פָּארָ֧ן פָּארָֽן׃ פארן פארן׃ mip·pā·rān mippaRan mippārān pā·rān paRan pārānLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |