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Haran (brother of Abraham)

Family

Born: Ur of the Chaldees
Died: Ur of the Chaldees

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Heb. haran; i.e., “mountaineer.” The eldest son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 5 verses

Genesis: 11:26, 11:27, 11:28, 11:29, 11:31

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.