חָרָןChârân
חָרָן: proper name [of a location]: city in northern Mesopotamia (Genesis 11:31; Genesis 11:32; Genesis 12:4; Genesis 12:5; Genesis 27:43)
Pronunciation: kaw-rawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2771
Meanings
חָרָן: proper name, masculine: son of Caleb of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:46)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- 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.
- Genesis 11:32 Terah lived for 205 years and died while still in Haran.
- Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Genesis 12:5 He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,
- Genesis 27:43 So listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran.
- Genesis 28:10 Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran.
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).