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# תֶּרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8646

**Tarah** — used 11 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

Tarah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8646/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תֶּ֫רַח: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8646/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. m. father of Abraham: (a king of ibex RSK (1st ed.) 220 (the deriv. was withdrawn afterwards by RS himself, v. RSK (2nd ed.) vii). (cf.Assyrian turâḫu, Arabic تَأْرُخٌ NöZMG xxxiii (1879), 331, Syriac ܬܰܪܽܘܚܳܐ capra caucasica), against which NöZMG xl 167;\* n.pr. div. JenZA vi. 70);—ת׳ Gn 11:25, 26, 27(×2), 28, 31, 32(×2) Jos 24:2; תָּ֑רַח Gn 11:24; 1 Ch 1:26; Θαρρα, 𝔊L Θαρα.—Vid. SelbieHast. DB Terah. loc. station on Exodus journey Nu 33:27, 28; Ταραθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Terah (8); of Terah (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.26/#tree)

שְׂר֥וּג נָח֖וֹר תָּֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* Serug Nahor Terah

*JPS 1917:* Serug, Nahor, Terah;

[Genesis 11:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.24/#tree)

וַיְחִ֣י נָח֔וֹר תֵּ֥שַׁע וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־תָּֽרַח׃

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

*JPS 1917:* And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8646.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8646/): 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).