Strong H2039H2039Gהָרָן
Haran
One of the 2 senses of Strong H2039
- Transliteration
- hârân
- Pronunciation
- haw-rawn'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
Meaning of the name
Haran = "mountaineer"
General definition
Perhaps from H2022; mountaineer;
{Haran} the name of two men: - Haran.
{Haran} the name of two men: - Haran.
In the biblical story
Haran
Son of Terah, brother of Abraham and father of Lot.
Haran, the son of Terah and brother of Abraham, was the father of Lot and died in Ur before his father Terah.
In the Bible
Strong H2039G appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- haran5
First verses
- Genesis 11:26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 11:27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
- Genesis 11:29And 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.
- Genesis 11:31And 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.