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Paddanפדנ

pad-dawn' · Patriarchs/Conquest

In the Bible

A biblical toponym — Paddan — attested in Gen 25:20 (7 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible).

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Gen 25:20

וַיְהִ֤י יִצְחָק֙ בֶּן־אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה בְּקַחְתּ֣וֹ אֶת־רִבְקָ֗ה בַּת־בְּתוּאֵל֙ הָֽאֲרַמִּ֔י מִפַּדַּ֖ן אֲרָ֑ם אֲח֛וֹת לָבָ֥ן הָאֲרַמִּ֖י ל֥וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.

Facts

Typeplace (toponym)
Biblical periodPatriarchs/Conquest
Gematria134
Letters3 consonants

Stellar letters

The 3-consonant name needs its 1 distinct simple-letter to be occupied in the sky. The 7 classical bodies open a sign → its Hebrew simple letter; this name reads only when the planets sit in exactly these signs.

נ
Scorpio · Nun

Readable on these rare conjunctions

Paddan appears in the stellar reading on 4 of the 12 dated rare conjunctions (proofs.json). Open any date in the Reader to verify it on that sky.

DatePrecessional eraOccupied letters |O|
21 Oct 6352 BCECancer3
5 Nov 4018 BCEGemini1
9 Nov 958 BCEAries2
12 Jan 1994Pisces3