הרן
הרן
haran
Proper locative noun, proper masculine noun · Perhaps from הר (H2022)
Perhaps from H2022; mountaineer; Haran, the name of two men:—Haran.
Outline
- Haran = "mountaineer"
- youngest son of Terah, brother of Abraham, father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah; born and died in Ur of the Chaldees
- a Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei
- a son of Caleb by the concubine Ephah
- proper locative noun
- name of the place to which Abraham migrated from Ur of the Chaldees and where the descendants of his brother Nahor established themselves; probably located in Mesopotamia, in Padanaram, the cultivated district at the foot of the hills between the Khabour and the Euphrates below Mount Masius