padan-aram
What Bible Dictionary carries this word "padan-aram" ... I'm surprised to see what does not. I realize Eastons does something very short but that's all I'm finding with what I've got.
I might add, that I find it strange that Smith's Bible Dictionary does not carry this word, or at least I cannot find it there. But when one goes online, I find that Smith's Bible Dictionary does carry it. Is there a simple explanation for this? Enage!
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Bootjack said:
What Bible Dictionary carries this word "padan-aram"
It's in quite a few - but often under "Paddan-Aram" - note the double "d"
Most of the Bibles I have looked at use the "dd" spelling.
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Curiously in my smallish library I have 484 hits for single "d" Padan and 586 for double "d" Paddan.
In just Bible dictionaries, 72 hits for "d" and 182 hits for "dd."
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Bootjack ... Padan-aram (along with Paddam-Aram) is one of the most culturally rich areas to explore with Logos. And surprisingly, Logos has considerably more depth in this area, than Egypt or Greece for example.
Just yesterday, reading my new Logos Assyrian church book (two thousand years later but illustrating the principle), one of the early points was that Edessa got orphaned from Antioch in a re-organization (sounds modern), which set the eastern church on a separate path. Padan-Aram never felt comfortable with Jacob's sons, even a thousand years later.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Graham, the double *d* did the trick. In the KJV it is one *d* ... not two as you know. Gao & Denise, thanks for the info. Very interesting and helpful as usual.
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