Hârân — H2039

Definition

masculine proper noun

Haran, the name of two men

1. Haran = "mountaineer"
2. n pr m
3. youngest son of Terah, brother of Abraham, father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah; born and died in Ur of the Chaldees
4. a Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei
5. a son of Caleb by the concubine Ephah
6. n pr loc
7. name of the place to which Abraham migrated from Ur of the Chaldees and where the descendants of his brother Nahor established themselves; probably located in Mesopotamia, in Padanaram, the cultivated district at the foot of the hills between the Khabour and the Euphrates below Mount Masius

Usually translated as

Haran

Origin

perhaps from H2022; mountaineer

• Derived from Har (H2022)

Occurrences

Hârân occurs 7 times in 6 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (5), 1 Chronicles (1)

• Genesis 11:26 — And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran (הָרָֽן).
• Genesis 11:27 — Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran (הָרָ֑ן); and Haran begat Lot.
• Genesis 11:27 — Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran (וְהָרָ֖ן) begat Lot.
• Genesis 11:28 — And Haran (הָרָ֔ן) died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
• Genesis 11:29 — 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 (הָרָ֥ן), the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
• Genesis 11:31 — And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran (הָרָן֙) 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.
• 1 Chronicles 23:9 — The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran (וְהָרָ֖ן), three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.