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title: תֶּרַח — Tarah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תֶּרַח (8646), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: Tarah. BDB 1906: n.pr. loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תֶּרַח

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«תֶּרַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tarah** — 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:** 11 times · **Key:** 8646 · **BDB:** תֶּ֫רַח

### Glosses

Terah (8); of.Terah (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Tarah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8646/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8646/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. m. father of Abraham: (a king of ibex RSK (1st ed.) 220 (the deriv. was withdrawn afterwards by RS himself, v. RSK (2nd ed.) vii). (cf.Assyrian turâḫu, Arabic تَأْرُخٌ NöZMG xxxiii (1879), 331, Syriac ܬܰܪܽܘܚܳܐ capra caucasica), against which NöZMG xl 167;\* n.pr. div. JenZA vi. 70);—ת׳ Gn 11:25, 26, 27(×2), 28, 31, 32(×2) Jos 24:2; תָּ֑רַח Gn 11:24; 1 Ch 1:26; Θαρρα, 𝔊L Θαρα.—Vid. SelbieHast. DB Terah. loc. station on Exodus journey Nu 33:27, 28; Ταραθ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תֶּרַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8646/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.26/)

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שְׂר֥וּג נָח֖וֹר תָּֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* Serug Nahor Terah

*JPS 1917:* Serug, Nahor, Terah;

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[Genesis 11:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.24/)

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וַיְחִ֣י נָח֔וֹר תֵּ֥שַׁע וְעֶשְׂרִ֖ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־תָּֽרַח׃

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

*JPS 1917:* And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

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