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From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: U

By: James P. Boyd

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(light, region). (1) Place where Abraham lived with his father Terah and his wife Sarah, before they started for the land of Canaan (Gen. 11:28,31²⁸And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 11:28)
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 11:31)). Mentioned in Genesis 15:7⁷And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. (Genesis 15:7), as of the Chaldees, and Acts 7:2²And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, (Acts 7:2), as in Mesopotamia. (2) Father of Eliphal, one of David’s guard (1 Chron. 11:35³⁵Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, (1 Chronicles 11:35)). Called Ahasbai (2 Sam. 23:34³⁴Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, (2 Samuel 23:34)).

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