A name from Scripture
Terah
TEH-ruh
Meaning
Station; Wanderer; Delay
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Genesis
What it points to
Terah started the journey to the Promised Land but settled halfway. His story asks: are we completing our calling, or have we stopped at a comfortable station short of God's full purpose?
Verses · King James Version
“And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law... and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.”
Genesis 11:31
“Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.”
Joshua 24:2