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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 - Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - Now the LORD had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh.[fn] And the Canaanites were then in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - But the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:18

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:2 - Abram was very rich in livestock, 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 first. And there Abram 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 Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre,[fn] which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They also took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre[fn] the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they were allies with Abram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - And he blessed him and said:

“Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - Now the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, and take the goods for yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - “that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram 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 Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong be upon you! I gave my maid into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - So Abram said to Sarai, “Indeed your maid is in your hand; do to her as you please.” And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:3 - Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - “No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27 - and Abram, who is Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 - “You are the LORD God,
Who chose Abram,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
And gave him the name Abraham;
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