pa.ran is a proper place name used for a wilderness region and for a mount associated with that place.

The term is consistently a proper place name: it marks a wilderness setting for travel, camping, and sending, appears in geographic positioning, and occurs in the expressions “Mount Paran” and “mount Paran.”

1. A geographic place name · dominant

   The supplied morphology identifies the form as a proper noun throughout. In Numbers 10:12 the APB renders the cloud as settling “in the wilderness of Paran,” while Numbers 13:3 places Moses’ sending of the men “from the wilderness of Paran”; Deuteronomy 33:2 and Habakkuk 3:3 refer to “Mount Paran” and “mount Paran” in clauses describing divine coming or shining forth. In 1 Kings 11:18, the APB renders travel to Paran and the taking of men from Paran, showing the name as a location in a travel account.

   Numbers 10:12Numbers 13:3Deuteronomy 33:2Habakkuk 3:31 Kings 11:18Genesis 21:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB normally retains the place name as “Paran,” often within “the wilderness of Paran,” and uses “Mount Paran” or “mount Paran” in Deuteronomy 33:2 and Habakkuk 3:3. These renderings confirm the verse-level location setting rather than supplying a separate definition.