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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 BoxGen 17:5 - No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - And God said to Abraham, "As for Sar'ai your wife, you shall not call her name Sar'ai, but Sarah shall be her name.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - And Abraham said to God, "O that Ish'mael might live in thy sight!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:22

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - Then Abraham took Ish'mael his son and all the slaves born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - Abraham 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 - That very day Abraham and his son Ish'mael were circumcised;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - Then the men set out from there, and they looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to set them on their way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - The LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 - No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice; so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham still stood before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Then Abraham drew near, and said, "Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - Abraham answered, "Behold, I have taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 - And Abraham went 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 - So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abim'elech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abim'elech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abim'elech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abim'elech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abim'elech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3 - Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac 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 - Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would suckle children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:8 - And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your descendants be named.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - At that time Abim'elech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that 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 - When Abraham complained to Abim'elech about a well of water which Abim'elech's servants had seized,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abim'elech, and the two men made a covenant.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set apart?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - After these things God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here am I."

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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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