Bible Strands
Haran
the name means mountaineer Strong's Lexicon
Haran, the son of Terah and brother of Abraham, was the father of Lot and died in Ur before his father Terah.
From 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.
Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.
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Terah
From STEPBible's TIPNR genealogy data. A relationship the data marks uncertain is not shown here.
First named at Genesis 11:26.
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Verses that name Haran
- Genesis 11:26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 11:27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
- Genesis 11:28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
- Genesis 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
- 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.