Dictionary
Search the dictionary or encyclopedia
Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - הָרָן
הָרָן
H2039
Transliteration: Hârân
Pronunciation: haw-rawn'
Definition: Haran
Original: הרן Transliteration: hârân Phonetic: haw-rawn'
BDB Definition:
Haran = "mountaineer"- youngest son of Terah, brother of Abraham, father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah; born and died in Ur of the Chaldees (noun proper masculine)
- a Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei (noun proper masculine)
- a son of Caleb by the concubine Ephah (noun proper masculine)
- 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 (noun proper locative)