Terach means “Tarah” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8646 תֶּרַח (Terach) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Terach (teh'-rakh) n/l. 1. Terach, the father of Abraham 2. also a place in the Desert It has 11 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include terah, tarah, and father. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Terach (teh'-rakh) n/l. 1. Terach, the father of Abraham 2. also a place in the Desert [of uncertain derivation] KJV: Tarah, Terah.
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Terah
Usage: A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.24; son of: Nahor (H5152); father of: Abraham (H0085), Nahor (H5152H), Haran (H2039) and Sarah (H8283) Also named: Thara (Θάρα "Terah" G2291) § Terah = "station" 1) the father of Abraham Tarah = "delay" 2) a station of Israel in the wilderness
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Terach, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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11 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8646.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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 the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
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.
Serug, Nahor, Terah,
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Terach (Strong's H8646) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Tarah". Terach (teh'-rakh) n/l. 1. Terach, the father of Abraham 2. also a place in the Desert
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's H8646 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8646 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as terah, tarah, and father. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.