Haran
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife
[was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the
daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of
Iscah....
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So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot
went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when
he departed out of Haran....
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And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and
all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that
they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the
land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came....
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In the Bible, Haran is the name of two men and of a place.
Though usually spelled identically in English, they are not in
Hebrew.
Genesis records that a man named Haran (Hebrew: הָרָן) was born
and died in Ur of the Chaldees. He was a son of Terah and
brother of Nahor and Abram (later Abraham). Haran was the
father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah (G...
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(a mountaineer).
1. The third son of Terah, and therefore youngest
brother of Abram. Ge 11:26 (B.C. 1926.) Three children are
ascribed to him --Lot, vs. Ge 11:27,31 and two daughters,
viz., Milcah, who married her uncle Nahor, ver. Ge 11:29 and
Iscah. ver. Ge 11:29 Haran was born in Ur of the Chaldees,
and he died there while his father was s...
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(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 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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ha'-ran (haran):
(1) Son of Terah, younger brother of Abraham and Nahor, and
father of Lot (Gen 11:27). He had two daughters, Milcah and
Iscah (Gen 11:29).
(2) A Gershonite, of the family of Shimei (1 Ch 23:9)....
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1. Father of Lot and brother of Abraham
Ge 11:26-31
-2. Son of Caleb
1Ch 2:46
-3. A Levite
1Ch 23:9
-4. Also called CHARRAN
A place in Mesopotamia to which Terah and Abraham
migrated
Ge 11:31; 12:4,5; Ac 7:4
Death of Terah at
Ge 11:32
Abraham leaves, by divine command
Ge 12:1-5
Jacob flees to
Ge 27:43; 28:7; 29
Returns from, with Ra...
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