In the Bible, Haran is the name of a man and of a place. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin Though usually spelled identically in English, they are not in Hebrew. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
Genesis records that Haran (Hebrew: הָרָן) was born and died in Ur of the Chaldees. Ur Kaśdim or Ur of the Chaldees (אור כשדים is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abraham ( origin He was a son of Terah and brother of Nahor and Abram (later Abraham). Terah or Térach ( was the father of Abraham mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Nahor (or Nacor ( Heb נָחֹור) is the name of two persons in Torah who were both descended from Arpachshad: The son of Abraham ( Ashkenazi Avrohom or Avruhom; ابراهيم, {{Unicode|Ibrāhīm}}; Ge'ez: He was the father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah (Genesis 11:27, 29). According to the Bible and the Quran, Lot ( Arabic: لوط, Lūṭ |; "Hidden covered" was the Nephew Milcah (related to the Hebrew word for " queen " is the name of two women in the Hebrew Bible: Milcah daughter of Haran in
According to Genesis, sometime after Haran's death Terah set out with Abram, Abram's wife Sarai, and Lot towards Canaan, along the way settling in the place called Haran (also spelled Harran, Charan, and Charran; Hebrew: חָרָן). Canaanites redirects here For the 1940s social and political movement in Israel, see Canaanites (movement. After the death of Terah in Haran (also related in Acts 7:4), Abram, Sarai and Lot continued on to (southern) Canaan, current-day Israel. The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. The city of Harran, in modern southern Turkey (32 km/20 mi southeast of Şanlıurfa, formerly Edessa) near the border with Syria, is probably the Haran of the Biblical accounts. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Şanlıurfa (often simply known as Urfa in daily language formerly cited as Edessa or in Kurdish; Riha or Urhāy Edessa ( Greek:) is the historical name of a Syriac town in northern Mesopotamia, refounded on an ancient site by Seleucus I Nicator Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية
References
- E. M. Blaiklock and R. K. Harrison, eds. The New International Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. (Zondervan, 1983):228.
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