Bible Names

Charran: meaning of the name

Charran means “a singing or calling out.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Charran in Hebrew and Greek

Χαῤῥάν G5488

Charrhán — Charrhan (i.e. Charan), a place in Mesopotamia

of Hebrew origin (H02771);

Charran in Scripture

“Charran” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 7:2

    And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

  • Acts 7:4

    Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.