# Terah — The City of God character guide

> Terah in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Father of Abraham, who set out for Canaan but settled in Haran.

## In the story

### [Of the era in Abraham’s life from which a new period in the holy succession begins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xii)

Father of Abraham; his family preserved the worship of the true God amid widespread superstition.

### [Chapter XIII: Terah's Emigration and the Silence on Nahor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiii)

Led his family from Chaldea to Haran in Mesopotamia, taking Abram, Lot, and Sarah but not his son Nahor.

### [Of the years of Terah, who completed his lifetime in Haran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv)

Terah is the focus of this chapter; his death in Haran at 205 years is explained as the completion of his life there, not that he spent all his years in that place.

### [XV Of the time of the migration of Abraham, when, according to the commandment of God, he went out from Haran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xv)

Terah is Abraham's father. Augustine calculates that Terah was 145 years old when Abraham left Haran, and that Terah died later at age 205 in Haran.

### [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxiv)

Referenced for the completion of his years in Haran as a parallel to the 400 years.

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