# H2771 חָרָן

חָרָן (Chârân), Strong’s H2771: Charan, the name of a man and also of a place KJV: Haran.. Occurs 12 times.

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*Chârân* — Charan, the name of a man and also of a place

KJV: Haran.

Derived from [חָרַר chârar](https://besorah.bible/word/H2787) (to glow, i.e. literally)

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָרָן n.pr.loc. city in northern Mesopotamia
- חָרָן n.pr.m
- חָרָן n.pr.m. son of Caleb of Judah

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=31) — Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife…
- [Genesis 11:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=32) — The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.
- [Genesis 12:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=4) — So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from…
- [Genesis 12:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=5) — Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom…
- [Genesis 27:43](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=43) — Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- [Genesis 28:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=10) — Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
- [Genesis 29:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=4) — Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”
- [2 Kings 19:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/19?v=12) — Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of…
- [Isaiah 37:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/37?v=12) — Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of…
- [Ezekiel 27:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/27?v=23) — “‘“Haran, Canneh, Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.