perhaps from
H2022; mountaineer; Haran, the name of two men:--Haran.
n pr m Haran = "mountaineer"
- youngest son of Terah, brother of Abraham, father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah; born and died in Ur of the Chaldees
- a Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei
- a son of Caleb by the concubine Ephah n pr loc
- name of the place to which Abraham migrated from Ur of the Chaldees and where the descendants of his brother Nahor established themselves; probably located in Mesopotamia, in Padanaram, the cultivated district at the foot of the hills between the Khabour and the Euphrates below Mount Masius
