Word Study · Strong's H2039 · Hebrew
הָרָן
Haran
haw-rawn'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Hârân
“Haran, the name of two men”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Haran, the name of two men
Rendered in the KJV as
Haran.
- 7occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 6inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 7 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 6
- וְהָרָ֖ן2
- הָרָ֑ן1
- הָרָ֔ן1
- הָרָ֥ן1
- הָרָן֙1
- הָרָֽן׃1
How it is rendered · 2
- Haran5
- and Haran2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- proper noun (a name)5
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 5
- HC/Npm · 2
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The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis6 occurrences
- Genesis 11:26הָרָֽן׃haranproper noun (a name)When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.here: Haran
- Genesis 11:27הָרָ֑ןharanproper noun (a name)This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.here: Haran
- Genesis 11:27וְהָרָ֖ןveharanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.here: and Haran
- Genesis 11:28הָרָ֔ןharanproper noun (a name)During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.here: Haran
- Genesis 11:29הָרָ֥ןharanproper noun (a name)And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.here: Haran
- Genesis 11:31הָרָן֙haranproper noun (a name)And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.here: Haran