HebrewH8646Proper Noun (Masculine)

תֶּ֫רַח

te.rach

11Occurrences
H8646Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Terach, the father of Abraham; also a place in the Desert

of uncertain derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Nahor (H5152); father of: Abraham (H0085), Nahor (H5152H), Haran (H2039) and Sarah (H8283) Also named: Thara (*Θάρα *"Terah" G2291) § Terah = "station" 1) the father of Abraham Tarah = "delay" 2) a station of Israel in the wilderness

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

תֶּ֫רַח appears 11 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
7
Numbers
2
1 Chronicles
1
Joshua
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:26BSB

Serug, Nahor, Terah,

Genesis 11:25BSB

And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:27BSB

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Genesis 11:31BSB

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.

Joshua 24:2BSB

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.

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