חָרָן

Strong’s Definition

Charan, the name of a man and also of a place

Etymology & Derivation

from H2787 (חָרַר); parched;

KJV Usage

Haran.

Detailed Definition

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

• 1.(n pr m) a son of caleb by his concubine ephah
• 2.(n pr loc) the city to which abraham migrated when he left ur of the chaldees and where he stayed until his father died before leaving for the promised land; located in mesopotamia in padan-aram at the foot of mount masius between the khabour and the euphrates

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Chârân; Pronunciation: kaw-rawn'