Terah

Terah Scripture - Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods....

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Terah Scripture - Genesis 11:31

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there....

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Terah Scripture - Genesis 11:25

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters....

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Terah in Wikipedia

Terah or Térach (Hebrew: תֶּרַח / תָּרַח, Modern Téraḥ / Táraḥ Tiberian Téraḥ / Tāraḥ ; "Ibex, wild goat", or "Wanderer; loiterer") was the father of Abraham mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Book of Genesis 11, Terah was the son of Nahor, who was the son of Serug, who was the son of Reu, who was the son of Peleg, who was the son...

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Terah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

te'-ra (terach; Septuagint Tharra, or (with New Testament) Thara; on the name see especially HDB, under the word): The son of Nahor and father of Abraham, Nahor and Haran (Gen 11:24 f). At Abraham's birth Terah was 70 years old (Gen 11:26), and after Abraham's marriage, Terah, Abraham, Sarah and Lot emigrated from Ur of the Chaldees on th...

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Terah in Naves Topical Bible

-The father of Abraham Ge 11:24-32 -Was an idolater Jos 24:2 -Called THARA Lu 3:34...

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Terah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(station), the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran, and through them the ancestor of the great families of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Midianites, Moabites and Ammonites. Ge 11:24-32 The account given of him in the Old Testament narrative is very brief. We learn from it simply that he was an idolater, Jos 24:2 that he dwelt beyond the Euphrates ...

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Terah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains of Mesopotamia. He had three sons, Haran, Nahor, and Abraham, and one daughter, Sarah. He settled in "Ur of the Chaldees," where his son Haran died, leaving behind him his son Lot. Nahor settled at Haran, a place ...

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Terah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Tenth from Noah through Shem; father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran (Genesis 11:27). Accompanied Abram from Ur on the way to Canaan (an act of faith on the part of one so very old; persuaded by his godly son), but died at Haran when 205 years old. He was 70 when Haran his oldest son was born, 130 when ABRAM was born (Genesis 11:26; Genesis 11:32; ...

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Terah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

to breathe; scent; blow...

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