Terah
תֶּ֫רַחStrong’s H8646terach (te-rach)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Terach is the Hebrew word usually translated “terah”, “at tarah” and “from tarah”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:”
Meaning
- The father of Abraham
- A station of Israel in the wilderness
- § Terah = "station"
How it's translated
- terah 11
- at tarah 1
- from tarah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 7
- Numbers 2
- Joshua 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 11:25And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:26And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 11:27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
- Genesis 11:28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
- Genesis 11:31And 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.
- Genesis 11:32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
Hebrew dictionary
תֶּ֫רַח terach · Terah
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.24; son of: Nahor (H5152); father of: Abraham (H0085), Nahor (H5152H), Haran (H2039) and Sarah (H8283) Also named: Thara (Θάρα "Terah" G2291) § Terah = "station" 1) the father of Abraham Tarah = "delay" 2) a station of Israel in the wilderness
תֶּ֫רַח terach · Terah
§ Terah = "station" a station of Israel in the wilderness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.