And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Padan-aram, [from paadaan, a plain, a low region] - plain of aram (highlands), once simply Padan (H6307) (Genesis 48:7), a district, and from х sadeh (H7704)] field, being applied to it (Hosea 12:12), a country, a cultivated fertile district of Mesopotamia, at the foot of the mountainous region in which stood Haran, the city of Nahor.
Syrian - [Hebrew, haa-'Aramiy (H761)], the Aramaean.