Lot: meaning of the name

Lot in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Lot in the Bible

• Lot, son of Haran

  34 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 11:27

Lot in Scripture

“Lot” appears in 34 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 11:27

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

• 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 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.

• Genesis 13:1

  And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

• Genesis 13:5

  And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

• Genesis 13:7

  And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

• Genesis 13:8

  And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.