Genesis 11:26
And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nahor, and Haran.
Footnotes
| 445 | Abram means Raised Father (Strong’s #87, #85, see Gesenius, Fuerst). -ram is based on the root verb rum (#7311) to be high, rise and is used in the context of Rest’s ark lifted up (Gen. 7:17) a hand raised up (Gen. 14:22), a pillar raised up (Gen. 31:45), a voice raised up (Gen. 39:18), a rod raised up (Ex. 7:20), etc. The renaming of “Raised-Father” to “Father-of-Tumult” in Genesis 17:5 is associated with him becoming a father of a Multitude and marks a prophetic change. See note on Genesis 17:5. The idea of Raised-Father raised might lend to the image of Jesus’ self being lifted up and his new name Father-of-Tumult matches the drawing of men to himself, “Also-myself, if I am lifted up from out of the earth, the whole will draw toward myself.” John 12:32 literal Hence, in Genesis 17:5 he is “not again called-out Raised-Father.” |
| 446 | Haran, Strong’s #2039, from Strong’s #2022, har. Mountain, hill, hill country. |