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Ur Kasdim ( Hebrew: אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים, romanized : ʾŪr Kaśdīm ), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldeans, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites.
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The Ziggurat (or Great Ziggurat) of Ur (Sumerian: 𒂍𒋼𒅎𒅍...
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Chaldea [1] ( / kælˈdiːə /) was a small country that existed...
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The biblical Ur is mentioned four times in the Torah or...
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Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Ur of the Chaldees (or Chaldeans) was a place in Mesopotamia and is mentioned four times in the Old Testament: Genesis 11:28 says that Haran (Abram’s brother and Lot’s father) died in Ur of the Chaldees, “the land of his birth.” Genesis 11:31 says that Abram left Ur of the Chaldees and moved to Canaan.
Map of Ur of the Chaldees (2,000 BC) Ur of the Chaldees. The Bible mentions that Abraham, the first Hebrew, was called by God to leave Ur of the Chaldees and to journey to a land that God would show him. Archaeologists have determined exactly where the city of Ur was located in ancient times.
UR OF THE CHALDEES , whence Abraham set out upon his journey to Canaan ( Genesis 11:28-31; Genesis 15:7 , Nehemiah 9:7 ), is usually identified with the well-known city of Uru in southern Babylonia, the site of which is marked by the mounds of Muqayyar.
The most generally-accepted theory at the present time is that Ur is to be identified with the modern Mugheir (or Mughayyar, "the pitchy") in Southern Babylonia, called Urumma, or Urima, and later Uru in the inscriptions. This borders on the district which in the 1st millennium B.C. was called Chaldea (Kaldu).
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