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 11:26
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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 11:27
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Genesis 11:28
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
Genesis 11:29
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
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.