Terah
Terah was the father of Abraham, Nahor, and Haran, who left Ur to settle in Haran.
The name Terah means “to breathe; scent; blow”
MaleEarly PatriarchPatriarchs eraOld & New Testaments4 books10 verses
Summary
Events
Dates are approximate
- Birth of Terahc. 2126 BC
- Lifetime of Terahc. 2126 BC
- Birth of Abrahamc. 1997 BC
- Death of Terahc. 1921 BC
Glossary entries
Family members
- Father
Alternative names
Mentions
- When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
- And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
- When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
- During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
- And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
- And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
- Serug, Nahor, Terah,
- …the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,