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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
El-paran
The oak or terebinth of Paran, on the edge of the wilderness by the Horites in Seir. The kings under Chedorlaomer got this far before they turned back toward the Dead Sea cities.
The oak or terebinth of Paran, on the edge of the wilderness by the Horites in Seir. The kings under Chedorlaomer got this far before they turned back toward the Dead Sea cities.
El-paran was not a person but a place name, "the oak (or terebinth) of Paran," marking a site on the edge of the wilderness bordering the territory of the Horites in the hill country of Seir. It marks the farthest point reached by the invading kings under Chedorlaomer before they turned back toward the Dead Sea cities (Genesis 14:6), and its name incorporates the wilderness of Paran, covered separately, through which Israel later traveled during the exodus.
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- Genesis 14:6
