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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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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:26 - Terach lived seventy years, and became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - Now this is the history of the generations of Terach. Terach became the father of Avram, Nachor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Avram and Nachor took wives. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife, Milkah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Yiskah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terach took Avram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Kasdim, to go into the land of Kana`an. They came to Haran, and lived there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - Now the LORD said to Avram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:4 - So Avram went, as the LORD had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Avram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Avram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Kana`an. Into the land of Kana`an they came.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Avram passed through the land to the place of Shekhem, to the oak of Moreh. The Kana`ani was then in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - The LORD appeared to Avram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." He built an altar there to the LORD, who appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Avram traveled, going on still toward the South.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - There was a famine in the land. Avram went down into Mitzrayim to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - It happened that when Avram had come into Mitzrayim, the Mitzrim saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - He dealt well with Avram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and female donkeys, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - The LORD plagued Par`oh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Avram's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - Par`oh called Avram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - Avram went up out of Mitzrayim: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:2 - Avram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Avram called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - There was a strife between the herdsmen of Avram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Kana`ani and the Perizzi lived then in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - Avram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Avram lived in the land of Kana`an, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sedom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Avram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hevron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They took Lot, Avram's brother's son, who lived in Sedom, and his goods, and departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - One who had escaped came and told Avram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amori, brother of Eshkol, and brother of `Aner; and these were allies of Avram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Avram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Avram of El `Elyon, possessor of heaven and eretz:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - The king of Sedom said to Avram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - Avram said to the king of Sedom, "I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, El `Elyon, possessor of heaven and eretz,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Avram rich.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After these things the word of the LORD came to Avram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - Avram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eli`ezer of Dammesek?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - Avram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Avram drove them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Avram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - He said to Avram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - In that day the LORD made a covenant with Avram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Mitzrayim to the great river, the river Perat:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Avram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, a Mitzrian, whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - Sarai said to Avram," See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Avram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - Sarai, Avram's wife, took Hagar the Mitzrian, her handmaid, after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kana`an, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Sarai said to Avram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Avram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - Hagar bore a son for Avram. Avram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Yishma'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Avram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Yishma'el to Avram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - When Avram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Avram, and said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Walk before me, and be blameless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:3 - Avram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

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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 1Ch 1:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27 - Avram (the same is Avraham).

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 - You are the LORD the God, who did choose Avram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Kasdim, and gave him the name of Avraham,
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