Study it in the app“Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.”
TerahתֶּרַחtookוַיִּקַּחAbramאֶת אַבְרָםhis son,בְּנוֹLotוְאֶת לוֹטsonבֶּןof Haran,הָרָןhis grandson,בֶּן בְּנוֹand Saraiוְאֵת שָׂרַיhis daughter-in-law,כַּלָּתוֹthe wifeאֵשֶׁתof Abramאַבְרָםhis son,בְּנוֹand they went outוַיֵּצְאוּwith themאִתָּםfrom Urמֵאוּרof the Chaldeansכַּשְׂדִּיםto goלָלֶכֶתto the landאַרְצָהof Canaan;כְּנַעַןand they cameוַיָּבֹאוּas far asעַדHaranחָרָןand settledוַיֵּשְׁבוּthere.שָׁם
Terah
Terah, the father of Abram; also a place in the wilderness.
Where else “terach” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “yikach” appearsAbram
Abram, the name of Abraham before God changed it (Genesis 17:5). It means "exalted father".
Where else “avram” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appearsLot
Lot, nephew of Abram, son of Haran; he settled in Sodom and was saved from its destruction. Father of Moab and Ammon.
Where else “lot” appearsHaran
Haran, the name of men: above all Abram's brother and Lot's father. It is not the same name as the city of Haran (in Hebrew they are spelled differently).
Where else “haran” appearsSarai
Sarai, the name of Sarah before God changed it (Genesis 17:15).
Where else “saray” appearsdaughter-in-law
The son's wife.
Where else “kalat” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “eshet” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetsu” appearsUr
See it on the mapWhere else “ur” appearsChaldean
The Chaldeans, or the Babylonians.
Where else “kasdim” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechet” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “artsa” appearsCanaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavou” appearsHaran
See it on the mapWhere else “charan” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yeshvu” appears1Ur ?
Today: possibly Tell el-Muqayyar, southern Iraq
A city in Mesopotamia, probably in what is now southern Iraq; its location is debated.
Abram and his family left Ur of the Chaldeans for Canaan (Gen 11:31). God had brought him out from there (Gen 15:7).
2Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
3Haran
Today: Harran, southern Turkey, near Syria
A city in northern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Turkey near the Syrian border.
Abram stopped there with his family and left at seventy-five at God's command (Gen 12:4). Jacob fled there and worked for Laban (Gen 28:10; 29:4).
30Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 · This verse (above)
32The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
1. What it says
What did the people in the land of Shinar say as they built their city and tower (vv. 3-4)?
2. What it means
Why did YHWH confuse their language and scatter them over the whole earth (vv. 6-9)?
3. How I live it
In what you are planning, what is for making a name for yourself, and what is for serving others?
