Terah

Terah is a man living at the time of the Patriarchs. He is named in 10 verses of the Bible, first in Genesis 11:24.

Family

Verses

Genesis

• Genesis 11:24
  And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
• Genesis 11:25
  And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
• Genesis 11:26
  And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
• Genesis 11:27
  Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
• Genesis 11:28
  And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
• Genesis 11:31
  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.And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
• Genesis 11:32
  And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

Joshua

• Joshua 24:2
  And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 1:26
  Serug, Nahor, Terah,Serug, Nahor, Terah,

Luke

• Luke 3:34
  Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.