Haran
ha'-ran (charan; Charhran): The city where Terah settled on
his departure from Ur (Gen 11:31 f); whence Abram set out on
his pilgrimage of faith to Canaan (Gen 12:1 ff). It was
probably "the city of Nahor" to which Abraham's servant came
to find a wife for Isaac (Gen 24:10 ff). Hither came Jacob
when he fled from Esau's anger (Gen 27:43). Here...
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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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(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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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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And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and
Terah died in Haran....
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