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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - חָרָן
חָרָן
H2771
Transliteration: Chârân
Pronunciation: kaw-rawn'
Definition: Haran
Original: חרן Transliteration: chârân Phonetic: kaw-rawn'
BDB Definition:
Haran = "mountaineer"- a son of Caleb by his concubine Ephah (noun proper masculine)
- the city to which Abraham migrated when he left Ur of the Chaldees and where he stayed until his father died before leaving for the promised land; located in Mesopotamia in Padan-aram at the foot of Mount Masius between the Khabour and the Euphrates (noun proper locative)