הָרָןHârân

proper name, masculine: mountaineer

Pronunciation: haw-rawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2039

Meanings

1. son of Terah, brother of Abram and father of Lot (Genesis 11:27; Genesis 11:31; Genesis 11:28)

2. a Levite (Gershonite) (1 Chronicles 23:9)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 7 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 11:26 After Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
  • Genesis 11:27 This is the account of Terah’s family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
  • Genesis 11:28 But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living.
  • Genesis 11:29 Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor’s brother Haran.)
  • Genesis 11:31 One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.
  • 1 Chronicles 23:9 These were the leaders of the family of Libni. Three of the descendants of Shimei were Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).