i Modliar. About the time of the Christian sera it ap-
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poors to have been inckuled iii the kingdom of Euessa (Mos. Chor. ii, 32), which was ruled by Agbanis. Af- terwards it passed with tliat kingdom imder the domin- inn of the lionians. and appears as a Koman city in the wars of Caracalla (:Mos. Clior. ii, 72) and JuHan (Jo. Ma- lal. p. 320). It is remarkable that the people of Har- ran retained to a late time the Chaldican language and the worship of Chakhean deities (Assemmi,£ibl. Or.i, 327 ; t'hwoLson's ^sabier uud der Ssabismus, ii, 39).
Aljout midway in the district above designated is a town still called J/arraii, which reaUy seems never to have clianged its appellation, and beyond any reasona- ble doubt is the Haran or Charran of Scripture (Bo- chart's r/ififer/, i, 14; Ewald's Geschichte, i, 384). It is only peopled by a few families of wandering Arabs, who are" led thither" by a plentiful supply of water from sev- eral small streams. . Its situation is lixed by major Een- nell as being twenty-nine miles from Orfah, and occu- pying a tlat and sandy plain. It lies (according to li'Anville) in 30° 40' N. lat., and 39= 2' 45" E. long. (See Xicbuhr, Traveh, ii,410; Ritter, Erdk. x, 244; xi, 201; Cellar. A o^iV. ii, 72(j; Mannert.v, 2, 280; Michae- lis. StippL 930.) Harran stands on the banks of a small river called Belik, which flows into the Euphrates about lifty tndes south of the town. From it a number of leading roads radiate to the great fords of tlie Tigris and Euphrates; and it thus formed an important station on the line of commerce between Central and Western Asia. This may explain why Terah came to it, and why it was mentioned among the places which supplied the marts of Tyre (Ezek. xxvii, 23). Crassus was prob- al)ly marcliing along this great route when he was at- tacked by the I'arthians. Dr. Beke, in his Origines JiihlliiP (]i. 122 S(i.), made the somewhat startling state- ment that Ilaran must have been near Damascus, and tliat Aram-Xaharaim is the country between the Abana and I'harpar. After lying dormant for a quarter of a century, this theory was again revived in 1800. The Key. .1. L. Porter visited and described a small village in the i)lain, four hours cast of Damascus, called Harn\n cl-Awamid (■'Harran of the columns"). The descrip- tion having met the eye of Dr. Beke (in Fke Years in iJanvtsats, i, 37G), he at once concluded that this village was the site of the real " citj- of Nahor." He has since visited Hartiin cl-Awamld, and travelled from it to Gil- ead, and is more confirmed in his view, though he ap- pears to stand alone. His arguments have not been sudicieiit to set aside the powerful evidence in favor of Harran in Mesopotamia. The student may see the whole subject discussed in the Athetiaum for Nov. 23, 30; Dec. 7, 18G1 ; Feb. 1, lb; March 1, 22, 29; April 6, 19; and 3Iay 24, 1«(!2; also in Stanley's Lectures on the JewUh Church, i, 447 sq.— Kitto, s. v. ; Smith, s. v.
3. CiiAKAN (Heb. .same as last, meaning here nohle, accf)r(ling to Fiirst ; • Sept, 'Ap()av v. r. 'Apa/n). The son of ( 'alelj of ,Iu<lali by his conctdjinc Ephah, and father of (iazez (I Chron. ii, 40). B.C. between 1G18 and 1083.
4. Hauan (Heb. same as No. 1; Sept. '\nav v. r. Afir). ( )ne of the three sons of Shimei, a Levite of the family of <;ersh()n, appointed by David to superintend the olliies at the talxjrnacle (1 Chron. xxiii, 9). B.C.
Ha'rarite, the (Heb. always [except in 2 Sam. xxiii, 1 1 I witli the m.hii-/fnrari,' '^inr:n), a rlistinc- tive epitliet of three members of David's body-gniard; [>robably as natives of the vinuutiiins C^n, phir. constr. ''";") of ■)u<lah or Ei)hraim; but according to Fiirst from some town of the name of /far (in). See David.
1. ^'SiiAM.MAn fq.v.],(he son of Agee"(2 Sam. xxiii, 11 [i^ciit. 6 'Apapi v. r. 'Apoj^x'aiocVulg. de Arari, A. V. " the Hararite"], 33 [o 'Anwpirijr v. r. 'Apwolrnc, A rorifi'.tl, which latter verse shows tliat it was a desig- i nation of the son and not of the father), a different per- son from "Shammoth the Harorite" [q. v.] (1 Chron. xi, 27), or "Shammah the Harodite" I q. v.T (2 Sam xxiii, 25). SecAGEE.
2. " Jonathan [q. v.], the son of Shage" (1 Chron. xi, 34, Sept. 6 ' Apapi, Yulg. Ararite^), mentioned in the parallel passage (2 Sam. xxiii, 32) without any such dis- tinction. See Shagp:.
3. " Ahiam [q. v.], the son of Sacar" (1 Chron. xi, 85, Sept. 6 'Apapi v. r. 'Axap,Vulg. ^rartVes), or, in the par- allel passage (2 Sam. xxiii, 33), less accurately, "Ahiam, [the] son oiSharar [q.v.] the Ararite" (Heb. with the art. ha-Arari', '''^'^^i>^^, Sept. o 'Apadirrjc v. r. 'Apai, etc., Vulg. A roriies, A. V. "the Hararite") . See Sacak.
Haraseth. See Kir-Haraseth.