Bible Cities

Haran in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(1.) Heb. haran; i.e., "mountaineer." The eldest son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees. (2.) Heb. haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the Accadian charana, meaning "a road." A celebrated city of Western Asia, now Harran, where A...

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Haran Scripture - 2 Kings 19:12

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?...

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Haran Scripture - Genesis 11:27

Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot....

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Hebron Scripture - 2 Samuel 3:20

So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that [were] with him a feast....

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Goshen Scripture - Genesis 46:29

And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while....

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Goshen Scripture - Exodus 9:26

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel [were], was there no hail....

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Greece Scripture - Acts 20:2

And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,...

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Haran in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

HARAN was Terah's firstborn son, oldest brother of Abram (who is named first in Genesis 11:27, because heir of the promises), father of Lot, and Milcah who married her uncle Nahor, and Iscah or Sarai who married her uncle Abram, being "daughter (i.e. granddaughter) of his father not of his mother" (Genesis 20:12). That Haran was oldest brother...

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Haran Scripture - Isaiah 37:12

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?...

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