Dict: easton - Paran

easton:

Paran @ abounding in foliage, or abounding in caverns, kjv@Genesis:21:21), a desert tract forming the north-eastern division of the peninsula of Sinai, lying between the 'Arabah on the east and the wilderness of Shur on the west. It is intersected in a north-western direction by the Wady el-'Arish. It bears the modern name of Badiet et
- Tih, i.e., "the desert of the wanderings." This district, through which the children of Israel wandered, lay three days' march from Sinai kjv@Numbers:10:12-33). From Kadesh, in this wilderness, spies (q.v.) were sent to spy the land (13:3,26). Here, long afterwards, David found refuge from Saul ( kjv@1Samuel:25:1 kjv@1Samuel:25:4).

Paran, Mount @ probably the hilly region or upland wilderness on the north of the desert of Paran forming the southern boundary of the Promised Land kjv@Deuteronomy:33:2; kjv@Habakkuk:3:3).