Word Study · Strong's H8646 · Hebrew
תֶּרַח
Terach
teh'-rakh
“Terach, the father of Abraham”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Terach, the father of Abraham; also a place in the Desert
Rendered in the KJV as
Tarah, Terah.
- 13occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 11inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 13 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 11
- תֶּ֔רַח2
- תָּֽרַח׃2
- בְּתָֽרַח׃1
- מִתָּ֑רַח1
- תֶ֖רַח1
- תֶ֔רַח1
- תֶּ֚רַח1
- תֶּ֣רַח1
- תֶּ֜רַח1
- תֶּ֖רַח1
- תֶּ֛רַח1
How it is rendered · 3
- Terah11
- at Tarah1
- from Tarah1
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)11
- preposition + proper noun (a name)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 11
- HR/Npl · 2
All 13, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Genesis9 occurrences
- Genesis 11:24תָּֽרַח׃tarachproper noun (a name)When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.here: Terah
- Genesis 11:25תֶּ֔רַחterachproper noun (a name)And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.here: Terah
- Genesis 11:26תֶ֖רַחterachproper noun (a name)When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.here: Terah
- Genesis 11:27תֶּ֔רַחterachproper 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: Terah
- Genesis 11:27תֶּ֚רַחterachproper 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: Terah
- Genesis 11:28תֶּ֣רַחterachproper noun (a name)During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.here: Terah
- Genesis 11:31תֶּ֜רַחterachproper 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: Terah
- Genesis 11:32תֶ֔רַחterachproper noun (a name)Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.here: Terah
- Genesis 11:32תֶּ֖רַחterachproper noun (a name)Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.here: Terah