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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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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - Neither will your name any more be called Avram, but your name will be Avraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - God said to Avraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - God said to Avraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Avraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - Avraham said to God, "Oh that Yishma'el might live before you!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:22 - When he finished talking with him, God went up from Avraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - Avraham took Yishma'el his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Avraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - Avraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - In the same day both Avraham and Yishma'el, his son, were circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - Avraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly make ready three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - Avraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Now Avraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - The LORD said to Avraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sedom. Avraham went with them to see them on their way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - The LORD said, "Will I hide from Avraham what I do,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - seeing that Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the eretz will be blessed in him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 - For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring on Avraham that which he has spoken of him."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - The men turned from there, and went toward Sedom, but Avraham stood yet before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Avraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - Avraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - The LORD went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 - Avraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Avraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - Avraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foriegner in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Avraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Avimelekh king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Avimelekh called Avraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Avraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Avimelekh took sheep and oxen, men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Avraham, and restored Sarah, his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - Avraham prayed to God. God healed Avimelekh, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Avimelekh, because of Sarah, Avraham's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2 - Sarah conceived, and bore Avraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3 - Avraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bare to him, Yitzchak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - Avraham circumcised his son, Yitzchak, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:5 - Avraham was one hundred years old when his son, Yitzchak, was born to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - She said, "Who would have said to Avraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:8 - The child grew, and was weaned. Avraham made a great feast on the day that Yitzchak was weaned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Mitzrian, whom she had borne to Avraham, mocking.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - Therefore she said to Avraham, "Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, even with Yitzchak."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - The thing was very grievous in Avraham's sight on account of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - God said to Avraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Yitzchak will your seed be called.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Avraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Be'er-Sheva.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - It happened at that time, that Avimelekh and Pikhol the captain of his host spoke to Avraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 - Avraham said, "I will swear."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Avraham complained to Avimelekh because of a water well, which Avimelekh's servants had violently taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - Avraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Avimelekh. Those two made a covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - Avraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Pelishtim many days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - It happened after these things, that God tested Avraham, and said to him, "Avraham!" He said, "Here I am."

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1. Currently on page 1/4 (Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1) Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1

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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