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Lexicon :: Strong's H87 - 'aḇrām

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אַבְרָם
Transliteration
'aḇrām
Pronunciation
av-rawm'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted from אֲבִירָם (H48)
Strong’s Definitions

אַבְרָם ʼAbrâm, av-rawm'; contracted from H48; high father; Abram, the original name of Abraham:—Abram.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x

The KJV translates Strong's H87 in the following manner: Abram (61x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 61x
The KJV translates Strong's H87 in the following manner: Abram (61x).

  1. Abram = "exalted father"

    1. original name of Abraham

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַבְרָם ʼAbrâm, av-rawm'; contracted from H48; high father; Abram, the original name of Abraham:—Abram.
STRONGS H87: Abbreviations
אַבְרָם proper name, masculine (id., Thes and others exalted father) Abram Genesis 11:26, 27 + 57 times Genesis (to Genesis 17:5) + 1 Chronicles 1:27; Nehemiah 9:7; = אַבְרָהָם Abraham [H85 Genesis 17:5, 9, 15] 172 times OT. (אברהם connected Genesis 17:5 by word-play with הם of המון; really = רום ֯ אברם = רהם which however is not found in Hebrew — compare Di > HalRÉJ 1887, 177 f who proposes אֲבִר הַם גּוֺיִם compare [H7200 Genesis 29:32 with Isaiah 53:10]; so that אֲבִר הָם chief of multitude is the new name of Genesis 17:5 (הָם) √ המה).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:26; 11:27; 17:5; 17:5; 17:5

1 Chronicles

1:27

Nehemiah

9:7

H87

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Strong's Number H87 matches the Hebrew אַבְרָם ('aḇrām),
which occurs 61 times in 50 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of [fn]Abram and Nahor and Haran [his firstborn].

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Now these are the records of the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram (Abraham), Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai (later called Sarah), and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

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Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together to go from Ur of the Chaldeans into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran [about five hundred and fifty miles northwest of Ur], they settled there.

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Now [in Haran] the LORD had said to Abram,

“Go away from your country,

And from your relatives

And from your father’s house,

To the land which I will show you;

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So Abram departed [in faithful obedience] as the LORD had directed him; and Lot [his nephew] left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had acquired, and the people (servants) which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the [great] terebinth (oak) tree of Moreh. Now the [fn]Canaanites were in the land at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” So Abram built an altar there to [honor] the LORD who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev (the South country of Judah).

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Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - And when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - Therefore Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

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But the LORD punished Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

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So Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot [his nephew] with him, into the Negev (the South country of Judah).

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Now Abram was extremely rich in livestock and in silver and in gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - where he had first built an altar; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD [in prayer].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5 - But Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And there was strife and quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were living in the land at that same time [making grazing of the livestock difficult].

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So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife and disagreement between you and me, nor between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, because we are relatives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the valley and camped as far as Sodom and lived there.

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The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had left him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Then Abram broke camp and moved his tent, and came and settled by the [grove of the great] terebinths (oak trees) of Mamre [the Amorite], which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to [honor] the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - And they also took [captive] Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions and left, for he was living in Sodom.

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Then a survivor who had escaped [from the invading forces on the other side of the Jordan] came and told Abram the [fn]Hebrew. Now he was living by the terebinths (oaks) of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner—they were allies of Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his nephew [Lot] had been captured, he armed and led out his trained men, born in his own house, [numbering] three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far [north] as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - And Melchizedek blessed Abram and said,

“Blessed (joyful, favored) be Abram by God Most High,

Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods (spoils of battle) for yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand and sworn an oath to the LORD God Most High, the Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I would not take anything that is yours, from a thread to a sandal strap, so you could not say, ‘I [the King of Sodom] have made Abram rich.’

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After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying,

“Do not be afraid, Abram,

I am your shield;

Your reward [for obedience] shall be very great.”

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Abram said, “Lord [fn]GOD, what reward will You give me, since I am [leaving this world] childless, and he who will be the owner and heir of my house is this [servant] Eliezer from Damascus?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram continued, “Since You have given no child to me, one (a servant) born in my house is my heir.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - The birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

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When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On the same day the LORD made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying,

“To your descendants I have given this land,

From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—

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Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, “See here, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. I am asking you to go in to [the bed of] my maid [so that she may bear you a child]; perhaps I will [fn]obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to Sarai and did as she said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian [maid], and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “May [the responsibility for] the wrong done to me [by the arrogant behavior of Hagar] be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, and when she realized that she had conceived, I was despised and looked on with disrespect. May the LORD judge [who has done right] between you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your maid is entirely in your hands and subject to your authority; do as you please with her.” So Sarai treated her harshly and humiliated her, and Hagar fled from her.

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So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son; and Abram named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, [fn]Ishmael (God hears).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

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When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the [fn]LORD appeared to him and said,

“I am [fn]God Almighty;

Walk [habitually] before Me [with integrity, knowing that you are always in My presence], and be blameless and complete [in obedience to Me].

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Then Abram fell on his face [in worship], and God spoke with him, saying,

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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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27 - Abram, the same as Abraham.

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“You are the LORD God,

Who chose Abram

And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees,

And gave him the name Abraham.

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