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title: הָרָן — Haran · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הָרָן (2039), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Haran. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הָרָן

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«הָרָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Haran** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 2039 · **BDB:** הָרָן

### Glosses

Haran (5); of.Haran (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Haran [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2039/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2039/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (mountaineer; i.e. mountain-people (or land)? cf. Di Gn 11:27);— son of Teraḥ, brother of Abram and father of Lot Gn 11:27(×2), 31 (all P), v 28 (J); also father of Milcah (Nahor’s wife) \& Iscah v 29 (J). a Levite (Gershonite) 1 Ch 23:9.—On הָרָן in n.pr.loc. v. sub בית הרם, p. 111.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הָרָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2039/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 11:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.26/)

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וַֽיְחִי־תֶ֖רַח שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֙וֹלֶד֙ אֶת־אַבְרָ֔ם אֶת־נָח֖וֹר וְאֶת־הָרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Terah seventy year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Abram (et) Nahor and (et) Haran

*JPS 1917:* And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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[1 Chronicles 23:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.9/)

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בְּנֵ֣י שִׁמְעִ֗י שְׁלוֹמִ֧ית וַחֲזִיאֵ֛ל וְהָרָ֖ן שְׁלֹשָׁ֑ה אֵ֛לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֥י הָאָב֖וֹת לְלַעְדָּֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Shimei \[were\].Shelomith and Haziel and Haran three these \[were\].the.heads of the.fathers of Ladan

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan.

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