: Terah is also a place, Terah ( Exodus )

Terah is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and in the New Testament.

Most of what is told about Terah is recorded in.

Terah is identified as the person who arranged and led the family to embark on a mysterious journey to Canaan.

It is shrouded in mystery to Jewish scholars as to why Terah began the journey and as to why the journey ended prematurely.

It is suggested that he was a man in search of a greater truth that could possibly be found in the familiar land of Canaan, and that it was Abram who picked up the torch to continue his father's quest, that Terah himself was unable to achieve.

It is believed that Abram left Haran before Terah died as an expression that he would not be remiss in the Mitzvah, of honoring a parent, by leaving his aging father behind.

According to Genesis, the Moabites were related to the Israelites, with both peoples tracing their descent back to a common ancestor, Terah, who is named as the father of Abraham and Haran, and Haran being the father of Lot.

Muslims maintain that Abraham's father was Azar, who is known in the Hebrew Bible as Terah.

Although the Qur ' an makes no mention of the birth of Abraham, as it does of Moses, the earliest incident involving Abraham is his preaching to his father, Azar, who in Judeo-Christian tradition is known as Terah.

J. Ussher agrees with the dating until the birth of Abraham, which he argues took place when Terah was 130, and not 70 as is the direct reading of, thus adding 60 years to his chronology for events postdating Abraham.

Quraysh is Nadhr (" son of ") ibn Kinanah ibn Khuzaimah ibn Madrakah ibn Ilyas ( Elijah ) ibn Madher ibn Nazar ibn Ma ' ad ibn Adnan ibn Add ibn Send ibn Napyot ibn Ishmael ibn Abraham ibn Azar ( Terah ) ibn Nahoor ibn Srooj ibn Ra ' o ibn Phaleg ibn Aber ibn Shaleh ibn Arpheckshad ibn Sam ibn Noah ibn Lamek ibn Motoshaleh ibn Edres ( Enoch ) ibn Yared ibn Mehlaiel ibn Qenan ibn Anosh ibn Sheeth ibn Adam

In the account of Terah's family, mentioned in, Nahor II is listed as the son of Terah, amongst two other brothers, Abram and Haran.

The mockery of the idol Barisat is more extended in the Midrash than in the Apocalypse ; also the condemnation of Terah as an idolater, as related in the Apocalypse, discloses the older Haggadah ( Genesis Rashi 39: 7 ), whereas the Book of Jubilees presents the later one ( compare Genesis Rashi 30: 4, 39: 7, where Terah is treated quite mildly ).

* The text opens with a description of Abraham helping his father Terah who is a maker of idols.

Terah coordinated the journey intending to go to this new land, however, he ended up staying in Haran ( biblical place ), a city that was along the way.

According to the Biblical Book of Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah were half-siblings, both being children of Terah ( Ge 20: 12 ).

Biblical Haran was where Terah, his son Abram ( Abraham ), his grandson Lot, and Abram's wife Sarai settled while in route to Canaan, coming from Ur of the Chaldees ( Genesis 11: 26 – 32 ).

The patriarchs from Adam to Terah, the father of Abraham, were often 100 years older when they begat their named son in the Septuagint than they were in the Hebrew or the Vulgate ( Genesis 5, 11 ).

Sarah was the wife of Abraham, as well as being his half-sister, the daughter of his father Terah ( Genesis 20: 12 ).

According to the midrash Genesis Rabba, Abraham's father, Terah, was both an idol manufacturer and worshipper.

Kenneth Wade suggested that Terah, the father of Abraham in the Bible Book of Genesis could have been one of the heads of such a leading family ().

Patriarchs from Adam to Terah, the father of Abraham, are said to be older by as much as 100 years or more when they begat their named son in the Septuagint than they were in the Hebrew or the Vulgate ( Genesis 5, 11 ).

After Abram smashed his father ’ s idols and chased customers away, Terah brought his unruly son before Nimrod, who threw him into a fiery furnace, yet Abram miraculously escaped.

He said that God appeared to Abraham in Mesopotamia, and directed him to leave the Chaldeans — whereas most Rabbinical commentators see Terah as being the one who directed the family to leave Ur Kasdim from: “ Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai ( his son Abram ’ s wife ), and his grandson Lot ( his son Haran ’ s child ) and left Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan .”

He was born and died in Ur of the Chaldees ( Ur Kaśdim ), was a son of Terah, and brother of Abraham.

Terah, a descendant of Shem son of Noah, was the father of Abram / Abraham, Nahor, and Haran.

# Nahor, son of Serug, whose son was Terah

# Nahor, son of Terah

# Nahor, a town in the region of Aram-Naharaim that was named after the son of Terah

He lived to be 148 years old and had a son, Terah at the age of 29.

Uzith was the daughter of Amuram, the granddaughter of Uz and the great-grandson of Nahor ( son of Terah ).

Shem begat Arphaxad ( and begat sons and daughters ), Arphaxad begat Salah (+ sons & daughters ), Salah begat Eber (+ sons & daughters ), Eber begat Peleg (+ sons & daughters ), and Peleg begat Reu (+ sons & daughters ), and Reu begat Serug (+ sons & daughters ), and Serug begat Nahor, and Nahor begat Terah (+ sons & daughters ), and Terah begat Abram ( his wife was Sarai )

Regarding his children, Terah had three sons: Abram, Haran, and Nahor II.

In the third to fifth generations only Reu's descendants are mentioned being namely Serug or Surug / Sun who fathered the first Nahor whence came Terah.

However, Terah stopped at Charan ( or Haran ) and settled there, as did Nahor and Milcah, whereas Lot accompanied Abraham and others onwards to Canaan.

* Terah ( descendant of Shem ), father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran

* 1677 BC — Death of Terah, father of Abraham, according to the Hebrew Calendar

The Zohar says that when God saved Abram from the furnace, Terah repented and Rabbi Abba B. Kahana said that God assured Abram that his father Terah had a portion in the World to Come.

Though on a journey in the right direction, Terah fell short at arriving to the divine destination — in contrast to Abram, who did follow through and achieved the divine goal, and was not bound by his father ’ s idolatrous past.

* Terah, father of Abraham

After Haran died in Ur of the Chaldees ' before his father Terah ', his family travelled towards Canaan, the promised land.

Terah, their father, coordinated the gathering of his family to journey west to their destination.

Pondering over this, he objects to his father against such idols, thus causing Terah ’ s anger.