חָרָן
Chârân · kaw-rawn'
Charan, the name of a man and also of a place
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2787 (חָרַר); parched;
Charan, the name of a man and also of a place
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Haran.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the head, the highest › the seed, life continuing
To separate and protect of the head, the highest of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָרָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
12 occurrences · 12 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and haran3 · 25%
- in haran2 · 17%
- haran2 · 17%
- unto haran1 · 8%
- out of haran1 · 8%
- to haran1 · 8%
- toward haran1 · 8%
- of haran1 · 8%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.