Bible Names

Haran: meaning of the name

Haran means “mountainous country.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Haran in Hebrew and Greek

הָרָן H2039

Hârân (haw-rawn') — Haran, the name of two men

perhaps from H2022 (הַר); mountaineer;

חָרָן H2771

Chârân (kaw-rawn') — Charan, the name of a man and also of a place

from H2787 (חָרַר); parched;

People named Haran in the Bible

Places named Haran

Haran in Scripture

“Haran” appears in 16 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 11:26

    And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

  • Genesis 11:27

    Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

  • Genesis 11:28

    And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

  • Genesis 11:29

    And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

  • Genesis 11:31

    And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

  • Genesis 11:32

    And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

  • Genesis 12:4

    So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

  • Genesis 12:5

    And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.