Ur in the Bible

Meaning: fire, light, a valley

Exact Match

Thematic Bible



“You are the Lord God,
Who chose Abram
And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees,
And gave him the name Abraham.

Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.

And He said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.”


Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.


Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,