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Terah
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Te'rah. (station). The father of Abram, Nahor and Haran, and through them, the ancestor of the great families of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Midianites, Moabites and Ammonites. Genesis 11:24-32.
The account given of him in the Old Testament narrative is very brief. We learn from it simply that he was an idolater, Joshua 24:2, that he dwelt beyond the Euphrates in Ur of the Chaldees, Genesis 11:28, and that in the southwesterly migration, which from some unexplained cause, he undertook in his old age, he went with his son, Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai, and his grandson Lot, "to go into the land of Canaan, and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there." Genesis 11:31. And finally, "the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran." Genesis 11:32. (B.C. 1921).
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Terah'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/t/terah.html. 1901.
