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Harada.h
288
Rariph
Situation unknown. Some believe it
to
be a chew the cud, but not to part tho hoof, and
desi(Olation of Media, namely the mountain, therefore unclean (Lev. xl. 6: Deut. xiv.
7).
or a corruption of "mountains" of Media.
The opinion of the Hebrews that the animal
chewed the cud was founded on a peculiar
Jlar'a-dah [terror].
movement of its mouth. Physiologically,
An encampment of the Israelites in the however, it is not a ruminating animal, but
wilderness, after being turned hack from a rodent, and is so arranged by modern nat–
Rithmah (Num. xxxiii. 24). Palmer and uralista. The common hare of
Pll.le;~tine
Drake identified it with the preaent Jebel
(upu..
yriacu.t)
is two inches shorter than the
•Aradeh, in the peninsula of S10ai, about 40 European hare (
L.
ruropii!WI),
and
has
slightly
miles southwest of Elath. Both etymology aborter ears.
It
frequt:nts wooded and culti-
and situation are against the identification.
vated placea. The common bare of southern
Ha'ran, L [meaning unknown].
Juda!a and the Jordan valley
(L.
juthll!
of
1.
A son of Terah, and brother of Abra- Gray)
has
very long ears and light tawny fur.
ham. He died early, in his native place, Ur
Triat~m
enumerates three other species of
of the Cbaldees; but left a son,
Lot,
and two the southern frontier:
L.
ll!gypt~.
the
daughters, Milcah and I_scah (Gen. xi._ 29):
Egyptian hare, in the southeastern part of
2. A Gershonite Lev1te, son of Sh1me1
(1
Jud-;
L.
iaabiUinru,
in the aandy deserts of
Chron. xxiii. 9).
southeastern Palestine; and
L .
.tiiiGilicu,
with
Ha'ru, U., in A. V. of N. T., Cll&rr&Jl fur of a reddish hue.
[road,
business].
Ha'rel [the mount of God].
1.
A city of Mesopotamia, about 240 miles
A portion of the altar described by
Eze.
west by north from Nineveh and 280 north- kiel (xliii.
15).
In the text of the A. V. it is
northeast of Damascus. It was a commer- rendered altar, and in that of the B. V. upper
cial center: and, like Ur of the Chaldees, altar.
had the moon-god for its patron deity. Terah
Ha'reph [picking, plucking oil'].
and Abraham sqjoumed m it for a time, and
A son of Caleb, and ancestor of the inhabi-
Terah died there (Gen. xi.
31,
32; xii. 4,
5).
tants of Beth-gader
(1
Chron. ii.
51).
The family of Nahor settled there, and Jacob
for a time resided there (xxiv. 24; xxviii.
Ba'reth. See HEÐ.
10;
xxix. 5). The Assyrians hunted in its
Bar-Jia'iah•.
vicinity as early as 1100
B.
c.; and they long
Father of the goldsmith Uuiel (Neh.
iii.
8).
held sway over it. A capture of the city by
Bar'bu.
them is mentioned (2 Kin. xix.
12).
The
An
ancestor of Shallnm, husband of Hal-
Greeks called it Karrhai, and the BomaDB dab the prophetess (2 Kin. xxii.
14)'.
Called
Carl'lll!.
In 53
B.
c. the Roman triumvir Hasrah in 2 Chron. :u.xiv. 22. The two
Crasaua, tbe colleague of Pompey and of names dill'er in Hebrew in the second H, and
Julius Cesar, allowed himself to be out- not merely in transposition of letters.
maneuvered and defeated near Haran by the
Jlar'hur [intlammation, fever].
Parthian general Surena, by whose repre-
The founder of a family of Nethinim,
aentativcshewassoonafterwardsbarbaroualy some of whom returned from Babylon wilh
slain
It
ia now a small Arab village, still Zerubbabel
(Ezra
ii.
51;
Neb. vii. 53).
retai~ing
the name of Harran, situated in
Ha'rim [fiat-nosed, snub-nosed, or colllll-
upper Mesopotamia, on the Belik, a tribu- crated].
tary of the Euphrates, about 240 miles west
1_
A descendant of Aaron. Hia family
by north from Nineveh and 82 east from the
had
grown to a father's hou11e in the time of
gulf of Scanderoon.
David and constituted the third course when
2. Son of Caleb and Ephah, of the family David distributed the priests into divisions
of Hezron
(1
Chron. ii. 46).
(1
(.'hron. x:Eiv.
1,
6, 8). Probably they were
Ha'ra-rtte [inhabitant of a mountain].
members of this family who returned from
Possibly it means a mountaineer, one from Babylon (Ezra ii. 39; Neb. vii. 42). A father's
the hill country of Judah or Ephraim (Si- house among the priests in the next genera–
mania, Geaeniua, Siegfried-Stadc). But this tion after the exile bore this name (Neb. xii.
designation seems
too
general.
Proba~l;r, ~
I
15);
see
REHUH.
At a later period BOme of
)udge from the context of 2 Sam. xx1b.
33,
1
this family were among those who
had
mar–
It meana an
i~habitant.
of a
~mlet
called
j
ried foreign wives (Ezra x.
21).
And later
Harar,
~ou~~m.
frot,n Its
lo~ati?n
on .some still a
prie.~t
of tbis name, doubtleaa head of a
peak,
h~e
G1beah, h11l, .!':nd Its
mhab1tan~
I
father's house,eigned the covenant to o'-rve
Gibeath1tea (2 Sam. xxm. 11; 1 Chron.
:n.
the law of God and to endeavor
to
preven'
3-&,
35).
I
intermarriages with foreigners (Neb. x. 5).
Bar-bo'D& and Barbonah [Persian, per-
1
2.
Founder of a non-priestly family, mem-
haps ass-driver].
•
1
bers of which retu:ned from
Babylo~_witb
A chamberlain of Ahaauerus (Eath. 1.
10;
Zerubbabel (Ezra
ii.
32; x.
31;
Neb.
111.
11;
vii.
9).
'i
vii.
35).
Bare.
.
Ba'riph [autumnal. rain).
.
An animal. in Hebrew
'Anltbdll,
sa1d
to
·
Founder of a family, members of whieb