BIBLE DICTIONARY
Padan

(Gen. 48: 7); elsewhere Padan-aram. Probably plain of Aram. Also called Mesopotamia, the country between the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates; the home of Rebekah (Gen. 25: 20) and Rachel (Gen. 28: 2, 5-7; see also Gen. 31: 18; Gen. 33: 18; Gen. 35: 9, 26; Gen. 46: 15).