Terah

Terah (also: Tarah, Terah, Terah, Hebrew תרח ) is a name mentioned in the Old Testament man.

Biblical Relevance

Terah, a descendant of Noah, is the first book of Genesis (Gen 11.24 to 32 EU) the father of Abraham ( Abram ).

Become seventy years old, he convinced him and two other sons, Nahor and Haran, and a daughter Sarai (Gen 20,12 EU). At this time the family lived in Ur of the Chaldeans. After Haran, the father of Lot, where he died, Terah sets out from Ur, to go unto the land of Canaan about 2000 km away. He takes his grandson Lot, Abram his son, and Sarai with who is now married with the late Abraham. Marriages between half-siblings were banned until the Law of Moses (5 Mos 27,22 EU).

But when they come half way to the village of Haran, the family settled here, where Terah died at the age of 205 years later. Abraham and Lot drag later on alone with their families.

Gen 11:26 EU does not mean that Terah's sons are triplets, but that they are born after 70 years of Terah, Abraham and not the oldest, but most important of them is. The same situation arises in Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth in Genesis 5.32 EU with Ham as the Last (Gen 9.24 EU). Rather, is there Abram 75 -year-old pulls away after Terah's death from Haran (Gen. 12.4 EU, EU Acts 7.4 ), Terah least 130 years old when he Abraham, and ten years later testifies Sarai (Gen 17,17 EU ).

Filming

In the Bible filming The Bible - Abraham from the year 1994, the Italian Vittorio Gassman Terah embodied.