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In the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
, Haran is the name of two men and of a place. Though usually spelled identically in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, they are not in Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
.

Genesis records that a man named Haran (Hebrew: ?????) was born and died in Ur of the Chaldees
Ur Kasdim

'Ur Kasdim' or 'Ur of the Chaldees' is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abraham may have been born. The traditional site of Abraham's birth is in the vicinity of Edessa, Mesopotamia although Ur Kasdim has been popularly identified since 1927 by Leonard Woolley with the Sumerian city of Ur, in southern Mesopotami...
. He was a son of Terah
Terah

Terah or T?rach was the father of Abraham mentioned in the Hebrew Bible....
 and brother of Nahor
Nahor

Nahor is the name of two persons in Torah who were both descended from Arpachshad:# The son of Serug and father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham....
 and Abram (later Abraham). Haran was the father of Lot, Milcah
Milcah

Milcah is the name of two women in the Hebrew Bible:*Milcah daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor in Genesis, and*Milcah daughters of Zelophehad in Book of Numbers and Book of Joshua....
, and Iscah (Genesis 11:27, 29).

According to Genesis, sometime after Haran's death Terah set out with Abram, Abram's wife Sarai
Sarai

Sarai, Saraj or Sarah can refer to:...
, and Lot towards Canaan
Canaan

Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
, along the way settling in the place called Haran (also spelled Harran, Charan, and Charran; Hebrew: ?????).






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In the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
, Haran is the name of two men and of a place. Though usually spelled identically in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, they are not in Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
.

Genesis records that a man named Haran (Hebrew: ?????) was born and died in Ur of the Chaldees
Ur Kasdim

'Ur Kasdim' or 'Ur of the Chaldees' is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abraham may have been born. The traditional site of Abraham's birth is in the vicinity of Edessa, Mesopotamia although Ur Kasdim has been popularly identified since 1927 by Leonard Woolley with the Sumerian city of Ur, in southern Mesopotami...
. He was a son of Terah
Terah

Terah or T?rach was the father of Abraham mentioned in the Hebrew Bible....
 and brother of Nahor
Nahor

Nahor is the name of two persons in Torah who were both descended from Arpachshad:# The son of Serug and father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham....
 and Abram (later Abraham). Haran was the father of Lot, Milcah
Milcah

Milcah is the name of two women in the Hebrew Bible:*Milcah daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor in Genesis, and*Milcah daughters of Zelophehad in Book of Numbers and Book of Joshua....
, and Iscah (Genesis 11:27, 29).

According to Genesis, sometime after Haran's death Terah set out with Abram, Abram's wife Sarai
Sarai

Sarai, Saraj or Sarah can refer to:...
, and Lot towards Canaan
Canaan

Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt....
, along the way settling in the place called Haran (also spelled Harran, Charan, and Charran; Hebrew: ?????). After the death of Terah in Haran (also related in Acts
Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the Bible, which now stands fifth in the New Testament. It is commonly referred to as simply Acts. The title "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late second century, but some have suggested that the title "Acts" be interpreted as "the Acts of the Holy Spirit" or even "the Acts...
 7:4), Abram, Sarai and Lot continued on to (southern) Canaan, current-day Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. The city of Harran
Harran

Harran, also known as Carrhae, is a district of Sanliurfa Province in the southeast of Turkey.A very ancient city which was a major Mesopotamian commercial, cultural, and religious center, Harran is a valuable archaeological site....
, in modern southern Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 (32 km/20 mi southeast of Sanliurfa
Sanliurfa

Sanliurfa , formerly cited as Edessa, Mesopotamia in in Aramaic, Riha in Kurdish language, and Urhay in Armenian language) is a List of cities in Turkey in south-eastern Turkey, and the capital of Sanliurfa Province....
, formerly Edessa
Edessa, Mesopotamia

Edessa is the historical name of a Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people town in northern Mesopotamia, refounded on an ancient site by Seleucus I Nicator....
) near the border with Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
, is probably the Haran of the Biblical accounts.

Another Haran is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:46. He is a son of Caleb (great-grandson of Judah son of Jacob) and father of Gazez.