Genesis 11:32

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
days	יְמֵי ye.mei-	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Terah	תֶ֔רַח Te.rach	H8646	Terach · proper noun, a man's name
hundred	וּמָאתַ֣יִם u.ma.Ta.yim	H3967	a hundred · conjunction + cardinal number, feminine dual absolute
five	חָמֵ֥שׁ cha.Mesh	H2568	five · cardinal number, both genders singular absolute
years	שָׁנִ֖ים sha.Nim	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
Terah	תֶּ֖רַח Te.rach	H8646	Terach · proper noun, a man's name
died	וַיָּ֥מָת vai.Ya.mot	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Haran	בְּחָרָֽן be.cha.Ran	H2771	Charan · preposition + proper noun, a place name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:27–end

Here begins the story of Abram, whose name is famous, henceforward, in both Testaments. We have here, I. His country: Ur of the Chaldees. This was the land of his nativity, an idolatrous country, where even the children of Eber themselves had degenerated. Note, Those who are, through grace, heirs of the land of promise, ought to remember what was the land of their nativity, what was their corrupt and sinful state by nature, the rock out of which they were hewn. II. His relations, mentioned for his sake, and because of their interest in the following story. 1. His father was Terah, of whom it is said (Jos 24:2) that he served other gods, on the other side of the flood, so early did idolatry g…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 11:31

Sarai his daughter-in-law--the same as Iscah [Gen 11:29], granddaughter of Terah, probably by a second wife, and by early usages considered marriageable to her uncle, Abraham. they came unto Haran--two days' journey south-southeast from Ur, on the direct road to the ford of the Euphrates at Rakka, the nearest and most convenient route to Palestine. Next: Genesis Chapter 12

Adam Clarke on Genesis 11:31

They went forth - front Ur of the Chaldees - Chaldea is sometimes understood as comprising the whole of Babylonia; at other times, that province towards Arabia Deserta, called in Scripture The land of the Chaldeans. The capital of this place was Babylon, called in Scripture The beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Isa 13:19. Ur appears to have been a city of some considerable consequence at that time in Chaldea; but where situated is not well known. It probably had its name Ur אור, which signifies fire, from the worship practiced there. The learned are almost unanimously of opinion that the ancient inhabitants of this region were ignicolists or worshippers of fire, and in that place this sort…

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John Gill on Genesis 11:32

The Church Fathers

On Terah's death in Mesopotamia, where he is said to have lived two hundred and five years, the promises of God made to Abraham now begin to be clarified. So it is written, "And the days of Terah in Haran were two hundred and five years, and he died in Haran." This is not to be taken as if he had spent all his days there but that he there completed the days of his life, which were two hundred and five years. Otherwise it would not be known how many years Terah lived, since it is not said in what year of his life he came into Haran. And it is absurd to suppose that in this series of generations, where it is carefully recorded how many years each one lived, his age was the only one not put on record. For although some whom the same Scripture mentions do not have their age recorded, they are not in this series, in which the reckoning of time is continuously indicated by the death of the parents and the succession of the children. For this series, which is given in order from Adam to Noah and from him down to Abraham, contains no one without the number of the years of his life.
— Augustine of Hippo, City of God 16.14

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Dictionary and topics

Chronology — Is the arrangement of facts and events in the order of time. The writers of the Bible themselves do not adopt any standard era according to which they date events. Sometimes the years are reckoned,…
Haran — (1.) Heb. haran; i.e., “mountaineer.” The eldest son of Terah, brother of Abraham and Nahor, and father of Lot, Milcah, and Iscah. He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees. (2.)…
Mesopotamia — The country between the two rivers (Heb. Aram-naharaim; i.e., “Syria of the two rivers”), the name given by the Greeks and Romans to the region between the Euphrates and the Tigris (Gen. 24:10; Deut.…
Nahor — Snorting. (1.) The father of Terah, who was the father of Abraham (Gen. 11:22-25; Luke 3:34). (2.) A son of Terah, and elder brother of Abraham (Gen. 11:26, 27; Josh. 24:2, R.V.). He married Milcah,…
Terah — The wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains of Mesopotamia. He had three sons, Haran, Nahor, and Abraham, and one…
Genealogy · To Abraham — To Abraham
Haran · . — .
Terah · The father of Abraham — The father of Abraham

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Genesis 11:32

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:27–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 11:31

Adam Clarke on Genesis 11:31

John Gill on Genesis 11:32

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Genesis 11:32

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:27–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 11:31

Adam Clarke on Genesis 11:31

John Gill on Genesis 11:32

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Genesis 11:31–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Genesis 11:27–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 11:31

Rashi on Genesis 11:32