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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 2 / 4 (Gen 22:3–Gen 26:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:4 - On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy[fn] will go over there and worship and come again to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:6 - And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:10 - Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:13 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:14 - So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”;[fn] as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:15 - And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20 - Now after these things it was told to Abraham, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:23 - (Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:3 - And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:5 - The Hittites answered Abraham,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:7 - Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:12 - Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:14 - Ephron answered Abraham,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:16 - Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18 - to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:1 - Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:2 - And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:9 - So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - And he said, “O LORD, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - and said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master’s kinsmen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:34 - So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:42 - “I came today to the spring and said, ‘O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48 - Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way[fn] to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:52 - When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:1 - Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:5 - Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:6 - But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:7 - These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:8 - Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11 - After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 - These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:19 - These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:1 - Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:5 - because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

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3. LOAD PAGE 3 Gen 26:15–Psa 105:6

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Psa 105:9–Mic 7:20

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