Ur
Where Ur sits on the map, and the 4 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Tell el Muqayyar
- Coordinates
- 30.9622, 46.1044
- Mentions
- 4 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
4 verses, in biblical order.
Genesis
- Genesis 11:28
And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
- Genesis 11:31
And so Terah took his son Abram, and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and he led them away from Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. And they approached as far as Haran, and they dwelt there.
- Genesis 15:7
And he said to him, “I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it.”
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 9:7
You yourself, O Lord God, are the One who chose Abram. And you led him away from the fire of the Chaldeans, and you gave him the name Abraham.
Routes that pass through here
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