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Haran
Haran or Aran (Hebrew: ‫ – הָ ָרן‬Hārān)[1] is a man in the Book of
Haran
Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.[2] He died in Ur of Chaldees (Ur Kaśdim),
was a son of Terah, and brother of Abraham. Through his son Lot, Born unknown
Haran was the ancestor of the Moabites and Ammonites, and through Mesopotamia,
his daughter Milcah he was ancestral to the Aramaeans. present-day Iraq
Died unknown
Ur of the Chaldees
Contents (Ur Kaśdim), Sumer,
Mesopotamia,
Haran and his family present-day Iraq
Etymology Other names Aran
Family tree Children Lot (son), Milcah
Others called Haran (daughter), Iscah
See also (daughter)

References Parent(s) Terah (father)

Relatives Abraham (brother),
Nahor (brother)
Haran and his family
Terah, a descendant of Shem son of Noah, was the father of Abram/Abraham, Nahor, and Haran. Their
home's location is not certain, but it is usually supposed to have been in Mesopotamia. Besides Lot and
Milcah, Haran fathered a daughter Iscah.

After Haran died in Ur of the Chaldees 'before his father Terah', his family travelled towards Canaan, the
promised land. However, Terah stopped at Charan (or Haran) and settled there, as did Nahor and Milcah,
whereas Lot accompanied Abraham and others onwards to Canaan.[3][4]

As a descendant of David in a legal sense, Jesus is considered a descendant of Haran through David's great-
grandmother Ruth, a Moabitess[5] and hence a descendant of Lot. Solomon's wife Naamah, mother of
Rehoboam and ancestress to all of Judah's subsequent kings, was an Ammonitess and thus also descended
from Haran.[6]

Etymology
The name Haran possibly comes from the Hebrew word har, = "mountain", with a West Semitic suffix
appearing with proper names, anu/i/a.[7] Thus, it has been suggested that Haran may mean
"mountaineer".[8] Personal names which resemble Haran include ha-ri and ha-ru, from texts of second
millennium BC Mari and Alalakh, and ha-ar-ri, from one of the Amarna Letters—but their meanings are
uncertain.[9][10][11] The initial element of Haran can be found in the Phoenician personal name hr-b`l, and
also in the Israelite personal name hryhw from Gibeon.[11]

Family tree
Terah
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Sarah[12] Abraham Hagar Haran

Nahor

Ishmael Milcah Lot Iscah

1st 2nd
Ishmaelites 7 sons[13] Bethuel
daughter daughter

Isaac Rebecca Laban Moabites Ammonites

Esau Jacob Rachel

Bilhah

Edomites Zilpah

Leah

1. Reuben
2. Simeon
11.
3. Levi 7. Gad 5. Dan
Joseph
4. Judah 8. 6.
12.
9. Issachar Asher Naphtali
Benjamin
10. Zebulun
Dinah (daughter)

Others called Haran

Haran is the English name of two other people mentioned in the Bible.

Haran, son of Caleb (Hebrew: ‫ – חָ ָרן‬Ḥārān) (1Chronicles 2:46).

Haran, son of Shimei (Hebrew: ‫ – הָ ָרן‬Hārān). He was a Levite who lived in the time of David and
Solomon (1Chronicles 23:1-9).

See also
Harran
Sabians

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References
1. Freedman, Meyers & Beck. Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible ISBN 978-0-8028-2400-4, 2000, p.551
2. Genesis 11:27-32
3. Genesis 11:28-12:5
4. Eerdmans dictionary, p. 997
5. Ruth 4:21-22
6. 1Kings 14:21,31, 1Chronicles 3:10-16
7. D. Sivan, Grammatical Analysis and Glossary of the Northwest Semitic Vocables in Akkadian Texts of
the 15th-13th C., BC from Canaan and Syria, 1984, p.97-98
8. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with its Language, Vol. 1, 1899, p.301
9. H. Huffmon, Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Archives: A Structural and Lexical Study, 1965, p.204
10. D. Sivan, Grammatical Analysis of Northwest Semitic Vocables, p. 222
11. Alexander & Baker. Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch (https://books.google.com/books?id=A
o5ecZ0ZsG8C&pg=PA380), 2002, p. 380
12. Genesis 20:12: Sarah was the half–sister of Abraham.
13. Genesis 22:21-22: Uz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, and Jidlaph

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