Lexicon :: Strong's H4138 - môleḏeṯ

Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah’s lifetime.

The LORD said to Abram:

Go from your land,

your relatives,

and your father’s house

to the land that I will show you.

“but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’[fn] ​— ​he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

The LORD said to him, “Go back to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.”

“I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’ ”

Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? ’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’? ”

“Children born to you after them will be yours and will be recorded under the names of their brothers with regard to their inheritance.

“You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her.

“You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted by[fn] your father; she is your sister.

But he replied to him, “I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”

Boaz answered her, “Everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband’s death has been fully reported to me: how you left your father and mother and your native land, and how you came to a people you didn’t previously know.

Esther did not reveal her ethnicity or her family background, because Mordecai had ordered her not to make them known.

Esther still did not reveal her family background or her ethnicity, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he raised her.

“For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ”

Do not weep for the dead;

do not mourn for him.

Weep bitterly for the one who has gone away,

for he will never return again

and see his native land.

He continues to stumble.

Indeed, each falls over the other.

They say, “Get up! Let’s return to our people

and to our native land,

away from the oppressor’s sword.”

“You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hethite.

“wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers, a depiction of the Babylonians in Chaldea, their native land.