Biblical places
Haran
The place where Abraham's family settled after leaving Ur, later Abraham's departure point for Canaan (Genesis 11:31-12:4) and where Jacob met his uncle Laban. Identified with modern-day Harran in Turkey's Şanlıurfa province.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Harran
- 36.8708, 39.0250
OpenBible (95%+ confidence) and Wikidata coordinates effectively agree.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
Isaiah 37:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
Genesis 11:32
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;