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Person

Terah

Also called Thara

Mentioned in 10 verses across 4 books, first in Genesis 11:24. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 2126 BC · died c. 1921 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Most early-Genesis dates are not historically established: they are reckoned from the ages in the genealogies, and nothing outside the text confirms them.

Group

Genealogy of Jesus

Family

Father

Nahor (father of Terah)

Children

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Nahor (father of Terah)5 verses
Abraham5 verses
Haran (brother of Abraham)4 verses
Nahor (brother of Abraham)2 verses
Lot2 verses
Jacob (Israel)1 verse
Isaac1 verse
Sarah1 verse
God1 verse
Joshuason of Nun1 verse
Canaan1 verse
Serug1 verse

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Harandied here; scene of “Death of Terah”2 shared verses
Ur of the Chaldeesscene of “Birth of Abraham”2 shared verses
Canaan1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 10 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

Genesis 11:24
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11:25
And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:26
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:27
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
Genesis 11:28
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 11:32
Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

Joshua

Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 1:26
Serug, Nahor, Terah,

Luke

Luke 3:34
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Events

Events the dataset lists Terah as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 2126 BC
Birth of TerahGenesis 11:24
c. 2126 BC
Lifetime of TerahGenesis 11:26–28
c. 1996 BC
Birth of AbrahamGenesis 11:26–27 · at Ur of the Chaldees
c. 1921 BC
Death of TerahGenesis 11:32 · at Haran

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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!