Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Aram-Naharaim is a region that is mentioned five times in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. It is commonly identified with Nahrima mentioned in three tablets of the Amarna correspondence as a geographical description of the kingdom of Mitanni. In Genesis, it refers to the 'land of Avram's birth' (Gen 24:4), the place where Avram's brother Nachor lived (Gen.24:10), but it may sometimes be used somewhat interchangeably with the names Paddan Aram and Haran (Haran should be denoted as Charan or Kharan as it is spelled with a 'chaf', and is NOT the same as Terach's son and Avram's brother Haran spelled with a Hey) to denote the place where Avram stayed briefly with his father Terach's family after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, while en route to Canaan (Gen. 11:31), and the place to which later patriarchs obtained wives, rather than marry daughters of Canaan (eg Gen:24:3-4). Paddan Aram refers to the part of Aram-Naharaim along the upper Euphrates, while Haran is mainly identified with the ancient city of Harran on the Balikh River. According to one rabbinical Jewish tradition, the birthplace of Abraham (Ur) was also situated in Aram-Naharaim.. }
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- Aram-Naharaim abstract "Aram-Naharaim is a region that is mentioned five times in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. It is commonly identified with Nahrima mentioned in three tablets of the Amarna correspondence as a geographical description of the kingdom of Mitanni. In Genesis, it refers to the 'land of Avram's birth' (Gen 24:4), the place where Avram's brother Nachor lived (Gen.24:10), but it may sometimes be used somewhat interchangeably with the names Paddan Aram and Haran (Haran should be denoted as Charan or Kharan as it is spelled with a 'chaf', and is NOT the same as Terach's son and Avram's brother Haran spelled with a Hey) to denote the place where Avram stayed briefly with his father Terach's family after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, while en route to Canaan (Gen. 11:31), and the place to which later patriarchs obtained wives, rather than marry daughters of Canaan (eg Gen:24:3-4). Paddan Aram refers to the part of Aram-Naharaim along the upper Euphrates, while Haran is mainly identified with the ancient city of Harran on the Balikh River. According to one rabbinical Jewish tradition, the birthplace of Abraham (Ur) was also situated in Aram-Naharaim.".