KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

mountaineer; {Haran} the name of two men

Haran = "mountaineer"

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 n pr loc

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