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Strong's #2039 - הָרָן
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Haran = “mountaineer”
1) youngest son of Terah, brother of Abraham, father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah; born and died in Ur of the Chaldees (noun proper masculine)
2) a Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei (noun proper masculine)
3) a son of Caleb by the concubine Ephah (noun proper masculine)
4) 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)
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1 son of Terah, brother of Abram and father of Lot Genesis 11:27 (twice in verse); Genesis 11:31 (all P), Genesis 11:28 (J); also father of Milcah (Nahor's wife) & Iscah Genesis 11:29 (J).
2 a Levite (Gershonite) 1 Chronicles 23:9. — On הָרָן in
proper name, of a location see below בית הרם, p. 111.
הָרָן (“mountaineer,” from הַר), [Haran], pr.n.
(a) of a brother of Abraham, Genesis 11:26, 27 Genesis 11:27(b) 1 Chronicles 23:9. בֵּית הָרָן see p. 117, B.
