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Strong's #5488 - Χαῤῥάν
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Haran = "a mountaineer"
- a city in Mesopotamia, of great antiquity and made famous by the defeat of Crassus
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Χαρράν (Hebrew חָרָן (i. e. (probably) 'parched', 'arid'), Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:5; Genesis 27:43), Haran (so R. V.; A. V. (after the Greek) Charran), called Καρραι in Greek writings andCarroe in Latin, a city of Mesopotamia, of great antiquity and made famous by the defeat of Crassus: Acts 7:2, 4. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word; Vaihinger in Herzog 5:539; (Schultz in Herzog edition 2, under the word); Steiner in Sehenkel 2:592; Schrader in Riehm, p. 571.
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χαρράν ,
indecl. (in FlJ., Ant., i, 16, 1, Κάρρα , -ας , ib. 6, 5, Χαρρά , -ᾶς ; so LXX: Genesis 29:4 E, Ezekiel 27:28 B, elsewhere -άν Heb. H2771), Haran, a town in N.W. Mesopotamia: Acts 7:2; Acts 7:4.†
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lit. ";a whisperer,"; but used with special reference to secret attacks on a person’s character, as compared with κατάλαλος, an open detractor.
For the combination in Rom. 1:29 (cf. 2Co. 12:20) Lightfoot (Notes, p. 256) cites Tac. Ann. vi. 7 ";cum primores senatus infimas etiam delationes exercerent, alii propalam, multi per occultum.";
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