Padan-aram
Name meaning: "cultivated field or table-land of Syria"
Padan-aram, meaning the plain of Aram or the plain of the highlands, designates the broad fertile region of upper Mesopotamia centered on Haran in what is now northern Syria. It figures centrally in the patriarchal narratives as the homeland of Abraham's family, the land to which Abraham's servant traveled to find a bride for Isaac (Genesis 24), and the refuge to which Jacob fled from Esau (Genesis 28:2–5).
Jacob spent twenty years in Padan-aram under his uncle Laban, where he married Leah and Rachel and fathered eleven of his twelve sons. The region was thus the cradle of the tribes of Israel. The name is used interchangeably with Aram-naharaim (Aram of the two rivers) and Mesopotamia in different biblical texts, all referring to the same upper Euphrates plain.