Lexical Definition

‎הָרָן‎ Hârân (haw-rawn') Haran ^N:N-M-P
perhaps from ‎הַר‎; mountaineer

Haran.

• § Haran = "mountaineer"
• Haran, the name of two men

n pr m
1) 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
n pr loc
4) 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

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎הָרָן‎ proper name, masculine (mountaineer; i.e. mountain-people (or land)? compare Di Gen 11:27); —

1. son of Terah\, brother of Abram and father of Lot Gen 11:27 (twice in verse); Gen 11:31 (all P), vGen 11:28 (J); also father of Milcah (Nahor's wife) & Iscah vGen 11:29 (J).

2. a Levite (Gershonite) 1Chr 23:9. — On ‎הָרָן‎ in proper name, of a location see below ‎בית הרם‎, p. 111.

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