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Lexicon :: Strong's H85 - 'aḇrāhām

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אַבְרָהָם
Transliteration
'aḇrāhām
Pronunciation
ab-raw-hawm'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted from אָב (H1) and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
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TWOT Reference: 4b

Strong’s Definitions

אַבְרָהָם ʼAbrâhâm, ab-raw-hawm'; contracted from H1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram:—Abraham.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x

The KJV translates Strong's H85 in the following manner: Abraham (175x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x
The KJV translates Strong's H85 in the following manner: Abraham (175x).

  1. Abraham = "father of a multitude" or "chief of multitude"

    1. friend of God and founder of Hebrew nation via God's elective covenant

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַבְרָהָם ʼAbrâhâm, ab-raw-hawm'; contracted from H1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram:—Abraham.
STRONGS H85: Abbreviations
אַבְרָהָם Abraham Genesis 17:5, 9, 15 172 times OT.

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H87.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:5; 17:9; 17:15

H85

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Strong's Number H85 matches the Hebrew אַבְרָהָם ('aḇrāhām),
which occurs 175 times in 159 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1)

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“No longer shall your name be Abram (exalted father),

But your name shall be Abraham (father of a multitude);

For I will make you the father of many nations.

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Further, God said to Abraham, “As for you [your part of the agreement], you shall keep and faithfully obey [the terms of] My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

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Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai (my princess), but her name will be Sarah ([fn]Princess).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael [my firstborn] might live before You!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:22 - And God finished speaking with him and went up from Abraham.

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Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were purchased with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin the very same day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - On the very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as Ishmael his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly, get ready three [fn]measures of fine meal, knead it and bake cakes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - Abraham also ran to the herd and brought a calf, tender and choice, and he gave it to the servant [to butcher], and he hurried to prepare it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in years; she was past [the age of] childbearing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh [to herself], saying, ‘Shall I really give birth [to a child] when I am so old?’

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Then the men got up from there, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham walked with them to send them on the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - The LORD said, “Shall I keep secret from Abraham [My friend and servant] what I am going to do,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - since Abraham [fn]is destined to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 - “For I have known (chosen, acknowledged) him [as My own], so that he may teach and command his children and [the sons of] his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is righteous and just, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised him.”

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Now the [two] men (angelic beings) turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Abraham approached [the LORD] and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous (those who do right) with the wicked (those who do evil)?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - Abraham answered, “Now behold, I who am but dust [in origin] and ashes have decided to speak to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - As soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham the LORD departed, and Abraham returned to his own place.

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Abraham started out early the next morning to the place where he [only the day before] had stood before the LORD;

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Now when God ravaged and destroyed the cities of the plain [of Siddim], He remembered Abraham [and for that reason], and He sent [Abraham’s nephew] Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He destroyed the cities in which Lot had lived.

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Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the Negev (the South country), and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived temporarily in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Abraham [fn]said [again] of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So [fn]Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took [fn]Sarah [into his harem].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I offended you that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me what ought not to be done [to anyone].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What have you encountered or seen [in us or our customs], that you have done this [unjust] thing?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely there is no fear or reverence of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him [as God commanded].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - So Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, and they again gave birth to children,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - for the LORD had securely closed the wombs of all [the women] in Abimelech’s household because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2 - So Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3 - Abraham named his son Isaac (laughter), the son to whom Sarah gave birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - So Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:5 - Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have given birth to a son by him in his old age.”

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The child [Isaac] grew and was [fn]weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - Now [as time went on] Sarah saw [Ishmael] the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, [fn]mocking [Isaac].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - The situation [fn]distressed Abraham greatly because of his son [Ishmael].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - God said to Abraham, “Do not let it distress you because of Ishmael and your maid; whatever Sarah tells you, listen to her and do what she asks, for your descendants will be named through Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her [fn]away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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Now at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 - And Abraham said, “I will swear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Then Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water which the servants of Abimelech had [violently] seized [from him],

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So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant (binding agreement).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - Then Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs of the flock,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - and Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham lived [as a resident alien] in the land of the Philistines for [fn]many days.

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Now after these things, God tested [the faith and commitment of] Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”


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2. LOAD PAGE 2 Gen 22:3–Gen 26:5

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Gen 26:15–Psa 105:6

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Psa 105:9–Mic 7:20

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