Strong's H2039 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: הָרָן (Hârân)

Pronunciation: haw-rawn'

Morphology: n-pr-m n-pr-loc

Part of Speech: n pr m, n pr loc

Name Meaning: Haran = "mountaineer"

Derivation: perhaps from הַר (har) [H2022]; mountaineer;

Definition: Haran, the name of two men

KJV Renderings: Haran.

Senses

1. youngest son of Terah, brother of Abraham, father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah; born and died in Ur of the Chaldees
2. a Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei
3. a son of Caleb by the concubine Ephah
4. name of the place to which Abraham migrated from Ur of the Chaldees and where the descendants of his brother Nahor established themselves; probably located in Mesopotamia, in Padanaram, the cultivated district at the foot of the hills between the Khabour and the Euphrates below Mount Masius

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.