הָרָן

Strong’s Definition

Haran, the name of two men

Etymology & Derivation

perhaps from H2022 (הַר); mountaineer;

KJV Usage

Haran.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.(n pr m) 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
• 4.(n pr loc) 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

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Hârân; Pronunciation: haw-rawn'