Pa'dan-a'ram. By this name, which signifies the table-land of Aram, that is, Syriac, the Hebrews designated the tract of country, which they, otherwise, called the Aram-naharaim, "Aram of the two of rivers", the Greek Mesopotamia, Gen_24:10, and "the field, (Authorized Version, 'country'), of Syria." Hos_12:13.
The term was, perhaps, more especially applied to that portion, which bordered on the Euphrates, to distinguish if from the mountainous districts, in the north and northeast of Mesopotamia. It is, elsewhere, called Padan simply. Gen_48:7. Abraham obtained a wife for Isaac, from Padan-aram. Gen_25:20. Jacob's wives were also from Padan-aram, Gen_28:2; Gen_28:5-7; Gen_31:1-8; Gen_33:18.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863