1. Haran (place name in Mesopotamia) — The proper noun חָרָן (I) designates Haran, a major city in upper Mesopotamia (modern Harran in southeastern Turkey) on the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates. It was the waypoint where Terah's family settled after leaving Ur (Gen 11:31-32), and the staging area for Abraham's departure to Canaan (Gen 12:4-5). Also mentioned in the Assyrian conquest lists (2 Kgs 19:12, Isa 37:12) and Ezekiel's trade oracle (Ezek 27:23). All three clusters are grammatical variants of the same toponym: S99258 uses prepositions (מֵחָרָן 'from Haran,' בְּחָרָן 'in Haran,' 4x), S99260 is the bare citation form (חָרָן 'Haran,' 4x), and S99261 adds the directional he or pronominal suffix (חָרָנָה 'Haran-ward,' 2x). Multilingual transliterations are uniform: Arabic حَارَانَ, Spanish Harán/Jarán, Hindi हारान/चरन, Korean 하란, Swahili Harani. 10×
AR["إِلَى-حَارَانَ","حارانَ","حَارَانَ","حَارَانُ","فِي-حَارَانَ","مِنْ-حَارَانَ"]·ben["হারণ","হারন-থেকে","হারনকে","হারনে","হারান","হারান-থেকে","হারানকে","হারানে"]·DE["Charan","[חרן]","aus-Charan","in-Charan","nach-Charan"]·EN["Charan","Haran","Haran-ward","from-Haran","in-Haran","of-Eden"]·FR["Charan","Charan-garde","Haran","[חרן]","dans-Charan","de-Charan"]·heb["ב-חרן","חרן","חרנה-ה","מ-חרן"]·HI["खारान","चरन","चरन-मे","चरन-से","हारान","हारान-को","हारान-से"]·ID["Haran","Haran,","dari-Haran","di-Haran","ke-Haran"]·IT["Caran","Caran-ward","Charan","[חרן]","da-Caran","in-Caran"]·jav["Haran","ing-Haran","lan-putra-putra","saking-Haran"]·KO["하란","하란과","하란에서","하란으로"]·PT["Charan","Charanah","Haran","de-Charan","em-Charan"]·RU["Харан","Харана","в-Харан","в-Харане","из-Харана"]·ES["Harán","Jarán","a-Charan","de-Harán","de-Jarán","en-Harán"]·SW["Harani","Harrani","katika-Harani","kutoka-Harani"]·TR["Haran'i","Haran'ı","Harran","Harran'a","Harran'da","Harran'dan"]·urd["حاران","حاران-سے","حاران-میں","حاران-کو"]
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† I. חָרָן n.pr.loc. city in northern Mesopotamia (Assyrian ḫarrânu = road, path COTGloss.; cf. DlPa 185; JensenKosmologie 28 ‘junction of trading-routes’ = cross-roads)—mentioned as city of Abram’s sojourn Gn 11:31, where his father Teraḥ died v 32, and whence he departed for Canaan 12:4, 5; where Laban, Jacob’s uncle, lived, and whither Jacob fled 27:43; 28:10 (both חָרָ֫נָה), 29:4; as…