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Place · City

Haran

Named in 10 verses across 4 books, first in Isaiah 37:12.

Where

Coordinates

36.8600° N, 39.0314° EOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗

Identification

Not assessed

The dataset gives no precision for this point.

Matched to an entry in an ancient-world gazetteer, and the match was checked by the dataset’s editors. Gazetteer entry

Some biblical sites are known for certain; others are identified from old names and descriptions and are still discussed.

People

Born, died or recorded here, or in an event set here, first; then people named in the same verses, which does not mean they were here.

Terahdied here, recorded as here, 1 event2 shared verses
Abrahamrecorded as here, 1 event3 shared verses
Lotrecorded as here, 1 event3 shared verses
Sarahrecorded as here, 1 event2 shared verses
Canaanrecorded as here1 shared verse
Haran (brother of Abraham)recorded as here1 shared verse
Jacob (Israel)2 shared verses
God1 shared verse
Laban1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 1 verse in Isaiah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Isaiah

Isaiah 37:12
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

Back to the first 10

Events here

Events the dataset sets at Haran. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. 1921 BC
Death of TerahGenesis 11:32
c. 1921 BC
Abraham enters CanaanGenesis 11:31–12:9

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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.