Terah תרח
Avraham's father, a dealer in idols at Ur Kasdim
Terach was born in 1878 and fathered Avram at seventy. The Torah lists him among Shem's descendants and reports dryly that he took his son Avram, his daughter-in-law Sarai and his grandson Lot and left Ur Kasdim «to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Charan and settled there». The journey stopped halfway — and that is Terach.
Midrash fills in the rest: he sold idols, and the young Avram smashed them in the shop and put the stick in the largest one's hands so that his father would have to say aloud that statues can do nothing. By the same tradition Terach denounced his son to Nimrod.
He died in Charan in 2083, aged 205, in fact outliving Avraham's departure by sixty years. The Torah reports his death early, Rashi explains, so that no one would say Avraham abandoned his father. The sages add that he repented at the end.