Ur of the Chaldees
City in the Bible
Location: 30.96° N, 46.10° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)
Born here: Abraham, Haran, Nahor
Died here: Haran
Mentioned in 4 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 Ur of the Chaldees is mentioned
Genesis 11:28
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Read in contextGenesis 11:31
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.
Read in contextGenesis 15:7
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Read in contextNehemiah 9:7
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
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