Paran
Where Paran sits on the map, and the 7 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Coordinates
- 30.3032, 34.7767
- Mentions
- 7 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
7 verses, in biblical order.
Genesis
- Genesis 21:21
And he lived in the desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Numbers
- Numbers 10:12
And the sons of Israel set out by their companies from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 13:3
“Send men, who may examine the land of Canaan, which I will give to the sons of Israel, one from the rulers of each tribe.”
- Numbers 13:26
And those exploring the land returned after forty days, having circulated through the entire region.
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words which Moses spoke to all of Israel, across the Jordan, in the plain of the wilderness opposite the Red Sea, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth, where gold is very plentiful,
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 25:1
Then Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered together, and they mourned him. And they buried him at his house in Ramah. And David, rising up, descended to the desert of Paran.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 11:18
And when they had risen up from Midian, they went into Paran, and they took with them some men from Paran. And they went into Egypt, to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And he gave him a house, and he appointed food for him, and he assigned land to him.