Terah

Also called Thara

Born c. 2125 BC · Died c. 1920 BC (traditional dating)

Place of death: Haran

Belongs to: Genealogy of Jesus

Father: Nahor

Children: Haran, Sarah, Nahor, Abraham

Mentioned in 10 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Terah is mentioned

  • 1 Chronicles 1:26–27

    26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

    27 and Abram (that is, Abraham).

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  • Genesis 11:24–28

    24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

    25 And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

    26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

    27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

    28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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  • Genesis 11:31–32

    31 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.

    32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

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  • Joshua 24:2

    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.

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  • Luke 3:32–35

    32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,

    33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

    34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

    35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

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