Who
The youngest son of Terah and brother of Abraham and Nahor. “Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive” (Genesis 11:28). He was the father of Lot, who went with Abraham, and of Milcah, who married Nahor, and of Iscah (Genesis 11:29). He is not the city of Haran, where Terah died, whose name is spelt differently in Hebrew.
Key verses
- Genesis 11:26
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 11:27
Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
- Genesis 11:28
Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
Where the Bible names him
Family
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Discussed by
Comments on the verses that name him.
- Tertullian, On the Pallium Chapter 2
The Law of Change, or Mutation, Universal. Draw we now our material from some other source, lest Punichood either blush or else grieve in the midst of Romans. To change her habit is, at all events, the stated…
- Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVI.12
Of the Era in Abraham’s Life from Which a New Period in the Holy Succession Begins. Chapter 12.—Of the Era in Abraham’s Life from Which a New Period in the Holy Succession Begins. Let us now survey the progress of…
- Hippolytus of Rome, The Refutation of All Heresies X.26
Jewish Chronology. …From Haran, a city of Mesopotamia, (Abraham, by the command) of God, transfers his residence into the country which is now called Palestine and Judea, but then the region of Canaan. Now,…
- Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 28
1–13. 1. In this chapter of the Gospel, brethren, our Lord Jesus Christ has most especially commended Himself to our faith in respect of His humanity. For indeed He always keeps in view, both in His words and deeds,…
- Jerome, Letters Letter 51
From Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, in Cyprus, to John, Bishop of Jerusalem. A coolness had arisen between these two bishops in connection with the Origenistic controversy, which at this time was at its height.…