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Boyd's Bible Dictionary: U
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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. 11:28,31
28
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 11:28)
31
And 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 15:7
7
And 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 7:2
2
And 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. 11:35
35
Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, (1 Chronicles 11:35)
). Called Ahasbai (
2 Sam. 23:34
34
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, (2 Samuel 23:34)
).
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