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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Terah. Every Terah in the Bible

    person

    Terah

    תֶּ֫רַחΘάρα

    Terah was the father of Abraham, Nahor, and Haran, who left Ur to settle in Haran.

    verses
    10
    first named
    Genesis 11:24
    last named
    Luke 3:34
    period
    the Patriarchs
    tribe
    Early Patriarch

    Description

    Who was Terah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Terah was the son of Nahor and the father of Abraham, Nahor, and Haran (Gen.11.24-26). He lived in Ur of the Chaldeans, where he worshipped idols (Jos.24.2). At age 70, he became the father of his three sons (Gen.11.26). After Haran died in Ur, Terah took Abraham, Sarah, and Lot and set out for Canaan, but they settled in the city of Haran instead (Gen.11.31). Terah died in Haran at the age of 205 (Gen.11.32). Jewish tradition portrays Terah as an idolater who turned to God. The Bible does not provide further details about his life, but his significance lies in being the father of Abraham, the recipient of God's covenant promises.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Terah 10 of 10 entities the graph connects to Terah, in 2 groups: kinship 6, events 4. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AbrahamAncestor of · Father of · 4 events · 275 versesSarahFather of · 3 events · 48 versesLotAncestor of · 3 events · 34 versesNahorFather of · 1 event · 11 versesNahorChild of · Descendant of · 1 event · 7 versesHaranFather of · 2 events · 5 versesKinshipCanaan1 event · 146 versesChaldea1 event · 90 versesHaran2 events · 12 versesUr1 event · 4 versesEventsTerah

    Ancestor of

    Child of

    Descendant of

    Father of

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Terah happens All 4 places the claims about Terah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Haran, Canaan, Chaldea, Ur. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Terah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.HaranCanaanChaldeaUr
    the PatriarchsAll 4 places the claims about Terah reach

    The pattern

    Where Terah is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 10 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS7 VERSES1 CHRONICLES1 VERSELUKE1 VERSE28 books and 606 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 10 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS7 VERSES1 CHRONICLES1 VERSELUKE1 VERSE28 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Terah is named in 10 verses, and the name is written 12 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 4 books. The name is written 12 times in them.

    1. Genesis7 verses

      11:2411:2511:2611:2711:2811:3111:32

    2. Joshua1 verse

      24:2

    3. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      1:26

    4. Luke1 verse

      3:34

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Lot and Haran, and 1 moreMilcahWife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.via Lot and HaranIscahDaughter of Haran, Milcah's sister, Lot's sister.via Abraham and SarahIsaacSon of Abraham; father of Jacob and Esau.via NahorSerugSon of Reu; father of Nahor, ancestor of Abrahamvia Lota wife of LotWife of Lot, daughter-in-law of Terahvia LotBen-ammiSon of Lot's younger daughter; father of the Ammonites.via Lotdaughter1 of LotElder daughter of Lot; mother of Moabvia Lotdaughter2 of LotYounger daughter of Lot; mother of Ben-ammivia LotMoabSon of Lot, born from an incestuous relationship.
    ElsewhereGenealogy of TerahEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

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