חָרָן
charan · Haran
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2771 · appears 12 times in the Bible
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charan (חָרָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Haran”.
A city in northern Mesopotamia where Abram's family settled; also the name of a man.
How to say it
cha·ran
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Haran
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).
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Where it appears
- Genesis 11:31
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.
- Genesis 11:32
The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
- Genesis 12:4
So Abram went, just as YHWH had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.
- Genesis 12:5
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 27:43
So now, my son, listen to my voice: get up, flee to Laban my brother, to Haran,
- Genesis 28:10
Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
- Genesis 29:4
Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”
- 2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of the nations deliver them, the nations that my fathers destroyed: Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
- 1 Chronicles 2:46
And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.
- Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations deliver them, the nations that my fathers destroyed: Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
- Ezekiel 27:23
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, Chilmad were your traders.
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