Haran

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Haran
     (1.) Heb. haran; i.e., "mountaineer." The eldest son of Terah,
     brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and
     Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the
     Chaldees.
     


       (2.) Heb. haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the
     Accadian charana, meaning "a road." A celebrated city of Western
     Asia, now Harran, where Abram remained, after he left Ur of the
     Chaldees, till his father Terah died (Gen. 11:31, 32), when he
     continued his journey into the land of Canaan. It is called
     "Charran" in the LXX. and in Acts 7:2. It is called the "city of
     Nahor" (Gen. 24:10), and Jacob resided here with Laban (30:43).
     It stood on the river Belik, an affluent of the Euphrates, about
     70 miles above where it joins that river in Upper Mesopotamia or
     Padan-aram, and about 600 miles northwest of Ur in a direct
     line. It was on the caravan route between the east and west. It
     is afterwards mentioned among the towns taken by the king of
     Assyria (2 Kings 19:12; Isa. 37:12). It was known to the Greeks
     and Romans under the name Carrhae.
     
       (3.) The son of Caleb of Judah (1 Chr. 2:46) by his concubine
     Ephah.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Haran, mountainous country