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hārān הָרָן ‘Haran’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: perhaps from har הַר ‘mountain’
Roots: הר

hārān pr n m pers + pr n loc
Haran = "mountaineer"
n pr m
1) youngest son of Terah, brother of Abraham, father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah; born and died in Ur of the Chaldees
2) a Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei
3) a son of Caleb by the concubine Ephah
n pr loc
4) 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

Mentioned in Genesis 11:28, 11:29, 11:26, 11:27, 11:31 1 Chronicles 23:9

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