Paran] Paran is the generall name of a great wildernesse, of the length of eleven dayes journey, of which the wildernesse of Sanai is a part; but is taken sometimes particularly for the first part of the desert next Arabia; sometimes for the last part, next to the land of Promise, and so it may here be understood; the whole was a most barren and fruitlesse place, which made Gods maintenance of so great a number, for so many yeares together, most miraculous.