Bible Names

Ur: meaning of the name

Ur means “fire, light, a valley.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ur in Hebrew and Greek

אוּר H218

ʼÛwr (oor) — Ur, a place in Chaldaea; also an Israelite

the same as H217 (אוּר);

Who named Ur in the Bible

Places named Ur

Ur in Scripture

“Ur” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 11:28

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

  • 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 15:7

    And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

  • 1 Chronicles 11:35

    Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

  • Nehemiah 9:7

    Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;