Haran

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
  2. 2
    a place in the Bible, possibly identical to Harran in modern-day Turkey that served as Abraham's temporary home after God called him in Ur but before he departed, the place where his father Terah died
  3. 3
    one of Abraham's two brothers

Example

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"And Avram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and all the people who they had acquired in Haran, and they left to go to the land of Canaan, and they came into the land of Canaan."

Etymology

A variant of Haren, or a reduced form of Hanrahan, both Irish surnames.

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