Lexical Definition

‎חָרָן‎ Chârân (kaw-rawn') Haran ^N:N--L
from ‎חָרַר‎; parched

Haran.

• § Haran = "mountaineer"
• Charan, the name of a man and also of a place

n pr m
1) a son of Caleb by his concubine Ephah
n pr loc
2) 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

See Greek: Χαῤῥάν

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎חָרָן‎ proper name, of a location city in northern Mesopotamia (Assyrian —arrânu = road, path COT^Gloss; compare Dl^{Pa 185}; Jen^{Kosmologie 28} 'junction of trading-routes' = cross-roads) — mentioned as city of Abram's sojourn Gen 11:31, where his father Terah died vGen 11:32, and whence he departed for Canaan Gen 12:4; Gen 12:5 where Laban, Jacob's uncle, lived, and whither Jacob fled Gen 27:43; Gen 28:10 (both ‎חָרָ֫נָה‎), Gen 29:4 as conquered by fathers of Sennacherib 2Kgs 19:12 = Isa 37:12 as place of trade Ezek 27:23 Assyrian –arrana (-ni), Schr^COT on Gen 11:31; Gen 27:43 ᵐ5 Χαρραν. It was an ancient seat of worship of moon-god (Sin), see Schr^{KG 355, 596}; see further Chwolsohn^{Ssabier i, 303 ff.} Wüstenfeld^{ZMG 1864, 443 f.} Schr^{KG 355, 536} Sachau^{Reise 217 ff.} Mez^{Geschichte. d. Stadt Harran, 1892}.

II. ‎חָרָן‎ proper name, masculine son of Caleb of Judah 1Chr 2:46 (twice in verse); ᵐ5 Αρραν, ᵐ5^L Ωρων (Sabean proper name ‎חרן‎ DHM^{Epigr. Dakam. 56}). ‎חוֺרֹן‎, ‎חֹרֹן‎ see ‎בֵּית חוֺרֹן‎ above

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