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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Terah
     the wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with
     his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains
     of Mesopotamia. He had three sons, Haran, Nahor, and Abraham,
     and one daughter, Sarah. He settled in "Ur of the Chaldees,"
     where his son Haran died, leaving behind him his son Lot. Nahor


     settled at Haran, a place on the way to Ur. Terah afterwards
     migrated with Abraham (probably his youngest son) and Lot (his
     grandson), together with their families, from Ur, intending to
     go with them to Canaan; but he tarried at Haran, where he spent
     the remainder of his days, and died at the age of two hundred
     and five years (Gen. 11:24-32; Josh. 24:2). What a wonderful
     part the descendants of this Chaldean shepherd have played in
     the history of the world!
     

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

  Terah, to breathe; scent; blow
  

















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