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Terah

American  
[teer-uh, ter-ah] / ˈtɪər ə, ˈtɛr ɑ /
Douay Bible, Thare

noun

  1. the father of Abraham. Genesis 11:25–32.


Etymology

Origin of Terah

From Hebrew Teraḥ, of uncertain origin and meaning

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In addition to his daughter Savanah, Mr. Kerwin’s survivors include his wife, Yvonne Kerwin, and four other children: Fox, Terah, Kailani and Justus.

From New York Times Jan. 26, 2023

Terah McNeal, 59, plans to attend the first CBC job fair to be held in Cleveland Monday.

From Washington Post Aug. 7, 2011

In 1896, $7,500,000 worth of other peoples money vanished in the hands of London's plausible Ernest Terah Hooley.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to The Book of Jubilees, Abraham's father, Terah, made small clay images which Abraham as a boy peddled in the street.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the poor, who learned to love her, she now and then found a trace of her lost "Terah," but it was only a straggling ray of light in a nightmare of darkness and sin.

From The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales by Hatton, Bessie

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