The Desert of Paran or Wilderness of Paran (also sometimes spelled Pharan or Faran; Biblical Hebrew: מִדְבַּר פָּארָן, romanized: Midbar Pa'ran), is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Paran is a large wilderness area that extends from Petra (Kadesh Barnea) down to Midian, east of the Arabah valley. Paran is three stops due north of Sinai (Mt. Lawz): Numbers 10:11-12, 33 The beginning of Paran is between Hazeroth and Rithmah.
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The Desert of Paran, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, was a place of wandering for Israel, a home to Ishmael, and a refuge for David.
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In the wilderness of Shur, to the N, lie wide open sandy plains and the dune-fringed coast. Paran is bordered to the S by ranges of hills or isolated groups such as the Moghara, Jelleg, and Hellal. The central area consists of elevated sedimentary tablelands, collectively called the “Jebel at Tih.”
PARAN (Heb. פָּארָן), biblical appellation for the main desert in the eastern Sinai peninsula. Its boundaries can be reconstructed by means of a number of biblical references.
Pa'ran (Heb. Paran', פָּארָן, according to Gesenius and Furst, excavated, i.e. a place of caves, from an Arab. root; according to others, from פָּאִר, to be beautiful; Sept. and Josephus, Φαράν; Vulg. Pharan), a name given in the Bible to a desert and to a mountain.