noun · feminine
charran
Strong’sG5488
Haran
stem charran-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Χαρράν
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5488 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhar-hran'
Charrhan (i.e. Charan), a place in Mesopotamia
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesCharran.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
indecl. (in FlJ., Ant., i, 16, 1, Κάρρα, -ας, ib. 6, 5, Χαρρά, -ᾶς; so LXX:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | charran | charran |
| object accusative | charran | charran |
| direct address vocative | charran | charran |
| of, belonging to genitive | charran | charran |
| to, for dative | charran2×Χαρράν | charran |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
charran“Haran”to, fordative singular2×
Acts 7:2… Mesopotamia prin ē katoikara auton en Charran,… in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Acts 7:4… exercharantos ek gēau Chaldaioiu katoikata en Charran. kakeithen meta tem apothnēskara ton patron …… of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought …