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Nave Topical Bible
• Paran
Thompson Chain Reference
• Paran
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Hazeroth & Paran
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Paran, or el-Paran
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Paran
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Paran, Mount
• Paran
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Paran
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Paran
Hitchcock Bible Names
• Paran
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Paran
• El-Paran
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Paran
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Mount Paran
People's Bible Dictionary
• Paran
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Paran
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Paran
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• El-Paran
• Paran; el-Paran
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Paran
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Paran
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Diocese of Paraná
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• El-Paran
• Paran
Lexicons
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Pa´ran a name which seems to be applied in Scripture to the whole of the desert region extending from the frontiers of Judah to the borders of Sinai. The name is still preserved in that of Wady Feiran, a valley of the lower Sinai, through which lay the road which appears to have been taken by the Israelites in their march to the upper region. In this valley there are ruins of a town, and indeed of more than one, with towers, aqueducts, and sepulchral excavations; and here Rüppell found the remains of a church, which he assigns to the fifth century. This was the Pharan or Faran which had a Christian population, and was the seat of a bishopric so early is A.D. 400.