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Strong's #2771 - חָרָן
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Haran = “mountaineer”
1) a son of Caleb by his concubine Ephah (noun proper masculine)
2) 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)
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II. חָרָן proper name, masculine son of Caleb of Judah 1 Chronicles 2:46 (twice in verse); ᵐ5 Αρραν, ᵐ5 L Ωρων (Sabean proper name חרן DHM Epigr. Dakam. 56).
חוֺרֹן, חֹרֹן see בֵּית חוֺרֹן above
חָרָן (i.q. Arab. حَرَّانُ a place dried up, or parched with the sun), [Haran], pr.n.
(1) of a town of Mesopotamia, called in Gr. and Lat. Κάῤῥαι, Carrœ, Arab. and Syr. حَرَّانُ, ܚܳܪܢܳ afterwards celebrated for the defeat of Crassus; Genesis 11:31, 12:5 27:43 2 Kings 19:12 and Ezekiel 27:23 (in this passage, J. D. Michaëlis, who follows a false hypothesis as to this whole verse, understands some other city in Arabia Felix); see Gol. ad Alferg. p. 249; Schult. Ind. Geogr. v. Charræ; J. D. Michaëlis, Suppl. p. 930.
(2) of a man, 1 Chronicles 2:46.