Haran
    (1.) Heb. haran; i.e., "mountaineer." The eldest son of Terah,
    brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and
    Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the
    Chaldees.

      (2.) Heb. haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the
    Accadian charana, meaning "a road." A celebrated city of Western
    Asia, now Harran, where Abram remained, after he left Ur of the
    Chaldees, till his father Terah died (Gen. 11:31, 32), when he
    continued his journey into the land of Canaan. It is called
    "Charran" in the LXX. and in Acts 7:2. It is called the "city of
    Nahor" (Gen. 24:10), and Jacob resided here with Laban (30:43).
    It stood on the river Belik, an affluent of the Euphrates, about
    70 miles above where it joins that river in Upper Mesopotamia or
    Padan-aram, and about 600 miles northwest of Ur in a direct
    line. It was on the caravan route between the east and west. It
    is afterwards mentioned among the towns taken by the king of
    Assyria (2 Kings 19:12; Isa. 37:12). It was known to the Greeks
    and Romans under the name Carrhae.

      (3.) The son of Caleb of Judah (1 Chr. 2:46) by his concubine
    Ephah.



 Haran, mountainous country