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# הָרָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2039

**Haran** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Haran [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2039/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָרָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2039/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (mountaineer; i.e. mountain-people (or land)? cf. Di Gn 11:27);— son of Teraḥ, brother of Abram and father of Lot Gn 11:27(×2), 31 (all P), v 28 (J); also father of Milcah (Nahor’s wife) & Iscah v 29 (J). a Levite (Gershonite) 1 Ch 23:9.—On הָרָן in n.pr.loc. v. sub בית הרם, p. 111.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Haran (5); of Haran (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 11:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.26/#tree)

וַֽיְחִי־תֶ֖רַח שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֙וֹלֶד֙ אֶת־אַבְרָ֔ם אֶת־נָח֖וֹר וְאֶת־הָרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Terah seventy year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Abram (et) Nahor and (et) Haran

*JPS 1917:* And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

[1 Chronicles 23:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.9/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י שִׁמְעִ֗י שְׁלוֹמִ֧ית וַחֲזִיאֵ֛ל וְהָרָ֖ן שְׁלֹשָׁ֑ה אֵ֛לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֥י הָאָב֖וֹת לְלַעְדָּֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Shimei \[were\].Shelomith and Haziel and Haran three these \[were\].the.heads of the.fathers of Ladan

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2039.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2039/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).