Bible Strands
Genesis 11:28
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the genealogy of Terah immediately after listing his sons, placing Haran’s death chronologically between the family’s origin and the subsequent marriage accounts.
The words — וַיָּמָת (va.ya.mot) translates literally to “and he died,” while מוֹלַדְתּוֹ (mo.lad.to) denotes “his native land” or place of birth.
The thread — The location “Ur of the Chaldeans” reappears in Genesis 15:7 and Nehemiah 9:7 as the geographic starting point for God’s call to Abram. The genealogical note here directly precedes Terah’s departure from that same region in Genesis 11:31.
Why it lands — The verse establishes the factual baseline of loss and geography that frames the patriarchal narrative, requiring the reader to track how a dead son fits into the lineage that God will ultimately redeem.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Cross-references
- Genesis 15:7 The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
- Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Acts 7:2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,