Person

Terah (Thara)

Also: Thara

Son of Nahor; father of Abram, Nahor and Haran (Gen 11:26). Took his family from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran, where he died aged 205 (Gen 11:31-32).

Sort year2126 BC

Tier 4 · Ussher, Annals of the World

Tier 4: Ussher, Annals (1658): 2126 BC (no higher-tier year available).

Description

Masoretic text: born AM 1878 (when his father was the age given in Gen 11), lived 205 years, died AM 2083. No CFAH paper dates this person; the sort year falls to Ussher.

Scripture

Family

Father: Nahor (son of Serug)
Children: Abraham (Abram)

Scripture facts

Age at son's birth: 70 (Abraham (Abram))
Lifespan: 205 years

Genesis 11:24–11:32 (opens in a new tab)

Birth

birth of Terah (Thara), CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones	1878 AM Precision: year	AM 1878	Jones, Chronology of the Old Testament (15th ed., 2002), "Chronological Compendium", p. 1 ("Terah born when Nahor was 29 ... 1878") (opens in a new tab) AM only; no BC printed.
Ussher	1878d AM, 2126 BC Precision: year	2126 BC AM 1878	Ussher, Annals of the World, Second Age §54 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Sets sort year
Jordan secondary	1878 - Terah born Precision: year	AM 1878	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §8 "The Chronology of Genesis 11" (year list) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan (compilation) secondary	1878 AM Precision: year	AM 1878	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 2, chart "Genesis 11:10 – 12 Genealogy" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 1878.
MT-Gen	AM 1878 Precision: year	AM 1878	Gen 11:10–26 (Arphaxad AM 1658 = Shem's 100th year, two years after the Flood of AM 1656; each later birth adds the father's age at the named son) (opens in a new tab)
Josephus (Whiston translation)	"Nahor begat Haran when he was one hundred and twenty years old" Precision: unknown	—	Josephus, Antiquities I.6.5 (Whiston) (opens in a new tab) Whiston's text names the son "Haran" here, but the series runs Nahor → Terah; Josephus' 120 differs from the Masoretic 29 (Gen 11:24). Treat as a Josephus/Whiston reading, not a date.

Death

death of Terah (Thara), CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones	Not yet established	—	— Not stated in the Jones sources read (Chart No. 1; Chronology of the Old Testament 15th ed. 2002). Leave empty until verified.
Ussher	2083a AM, 1922 BC Precision: year	1922 BC AM 2083	Ussher, Annals of the World, Second Age §70 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab) Ussher narrates Terah's death at the end of §70 under "2083a AM, 2792 JP, 1922 BC"; §71 ("After Terah died", 2083 AM, 1921 BC) begins the 430 years.
Jordan secondary	2083 - Terah died Precision: year	AM 2083	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §8 "The Chronology of Genesis 11" (year list) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan (compilation) secondary	2083 AM Terah dies @ 205 years old Precision: year	AM 2083	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 2, chart "Genesis 11:10 – 12 Genealogy" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 2083.
MT-Gen	AM 2083 Precision: year	AM 2083	1878 + 205 = 2083 (lifespan from Gen 11:24–11:32) (opens in a new tab)
Josephus (Whiston translation)	"where Terah died, and was buried, when he had lived to be two hundred and five years old" Precision: unknown	—	Josephus, Antiquities I.6.5 (Whiston) (opens in a new tab)

Disagreements & open questions

Open question Gen 11:26 ("Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran") is read by Ussher, Jones, CFAH and Jordan as Abram born when Terah was 130 (Gen 11:32 + 12:4 + Acts 7:4); scripture_facts.age_at_named_son = 70 records the verse as written. See abraham-birth.

Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.

Events

Free sources

The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Gen.11.24-Gen.11.32 ; Josh.24.2 ; 1Chr.1.26 ; Luke.3.34 ; Acts.7.4 public-domain
The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2) (Biblical Chronology 6:4, April 1994) (opens in a new tab) — §8 year list free-to-read
The Antiquities of the Jews (opens in a new tab) — Book I, ch. 6, §5 public-domain
Chronology of the Old Testament: A Return to the Basics (15th ed.) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
The Annals of the World, Deduced from the Origin of Time (1658 English edition), Part One: 4004–176 BC (opens in a new tab) public-domain
Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (A.M. chronology charts and A.M./B.C. table) (opens in a new tab) private-copy

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.