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Personal names which resemble Haran include ha-ri and ha-ru, from texts of second millennium BC Mari and Alalakh, and ha-ar-ri, from one of the Amarna letters—but their meanings are uncertain. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The initial element of Haran can be found in the Phoenician personal name hr-b`l , and also in the Israelite personal name hryhw ...
The following is a family tree for the descendants of the line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections. Not all individuals in this portion of the Bible are given names. For example, one English translation of the Bible states in Genesis 11:13 that "After the birth of Shelah,
Abraham [a] (originally Abram) [b] is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [7] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; [c] [8] and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic ...
Later, after God had changed Abram's name to Abraham and Sarai's name to Sarah as part of the covenant of the pieces, God appeared to Abraham in the form of three angels. God promised Abraham that Sarah would bear a son and he would become a great and mighty nation. [9] God then tells Abraham his plan,
When Abram had an encounter with God, [1] this brother directed his family to leave their native land and go to the land of Canaan. Terah, their father, coordinated the gathering of his family to journey west to their destination (Genesis 11:31). They followed the Euphrates River, with their herds, to the Paddan Aram region.
Terah or Terach (Hebrew: תֶּרַח Teraḥ) is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis.He is listed as the son of Nahor and father of the patriarch Abraham.As such, he is a descendant of Shem's son Arpachshad.
Ibn Ezra wrote in his commentary on Gen. 11:29 that Haran, Milcah's father, was a different person from Haran, Abraham's brother. Milcah was married to Nahor, who was also a brother of Abraham. Under Ibn Ezra's interpretation Milcah's husband was not also her uncle. [14]
Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897. Isaac blessing his son, as painted by Giotto di Bondone Jacob Wrestling with the Angel by Eugène Delacroix The patriarchs ( Hebrew : אבות ʾAvot , "fathers") of the Bible , when narrowly defined, are Abraham , his son Isaac , and Isaac's son Jacob , also named ...