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TERAH

(Heb. teraḥ)

(PERSON)

A descendant of Shem and father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran (Gen. 11:24, 26). Terah was the last connecting link between the primeval history and his son, Abram, through whom God began a new kind of covenant work, a significance apparently reflected in the fact that the Abram story is subsumed under the structural heading “these are the generations of Terah” (Gen. 11:27). However, after the brief reference to his move from Ur and his settlement in Haran (Gen. 11:31), the only reference to Terah is the notice of his death (v. 32). The fact that this death report appears narratively before Abram’s independent movement to Canaan, although Terah apparently was alive through most of the period, seems to reflect negatively on him. Clearly, he had no part in the continuing covenant story. The name Terah may reflect moon worship, which was popular in both Haran and Ur (cf. the reference to Terah in Josh. 24:2 as one who served other gods).

Walter E. Brown

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TERAH

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)