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Reference: Hara

American

1Ch 5:26, probably a mountainous region in the northern part of Media.

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Easton

mountainous land, a province of Assyria (1Ch 5:26), between the Tigris and the Euphrates, along the banks of the Khabur, to which some of the Israelite captives were carried. It has not been identified. Some think the word a variation of Haran.

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Fausets

1Ch 5:26. Pul and Tiglath Pileser carried the men of Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh away to Hara while most were taken to Habor. The name may be akin to Aria and Aryans, the Greek for Media and the Medes. Probably HARAN, the Mesopotamian city whither Abram came from Ur, where he received his second call from God, and where his brother Nahor's children settled (Ge 11:31; 24:10; 27:43; 25:20) in Padan Aram or the low and beautiful region at the foot of the hills below mount Masius, between the Khabour and the Euphrates. (See ABRAHAM.) Here still is a town bearing the old name Harran, whose people retained until lately the Chaldean language and idols; upon the Belilk (in ancient times, Bilichus), an affluent of the Euphrates. Called Charran Ac 7:2,4. The scene of Crassus' defeat. At our Lord's time in Abgarus' kingdom of Edessa.

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Hastings

Mentioned in 1Ch 5:26 as one of the places to which Israelites were deported by the king of Assyria on the capture of Samaria. But in the corresponding accounts (2Ki 17:6; 18:11) Hara is not mentioned, and most probably the name 'Hara' in 1Ch 5:26 is due to a corruption of the text. There is much to be said for the suggestion that the original text read h

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Morish

Ha'ra

Place to which some of the captives of Israel were carried. 1Ch 5:26. It is not included in the parallel passage in 2Ki 17:6, and may in Chronicles signify 'hill country.'

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Smith

Ha'ra

(mountain land),

1Ch 5:26

only, is either a place utterly unknown or it must be regarded as identical with Haran or Charran.

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