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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)
Dictionary Aids

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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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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“Your name will no longer be Abram;[fn] your name will be Abraham,[fn] for I will make you the father of many nations.

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God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep my covenant.

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God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah[fn] will be her name.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 -

Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 -

So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable[fn] to you! ”

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When he finished talking with him, God withdrew[fn] from Abraham.

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So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased ​— ​every male among the members of Abraham’s household ​— ​and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,

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On that very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

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So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Knead three measures[fn] of fine flour and make bread.”[fn]

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Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 -

Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years.[fn] Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 -

But the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Can I really have a baby when I’m old? ’

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 -

The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 -

Then the LORD said, “Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?

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“Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 -

“For I have chosen[fn] him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what he promised him.”

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The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the LORD.[fn]

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Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

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Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to my lord ​— ​even though I am dust and ashes ​— ​

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When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 -

Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 -

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

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From there Abraham traveled to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

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Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

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Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said to him, “What have you done to us? How did I sin against you that you have brought such enormous guilt on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”

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Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What made you do this? ”

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Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘There is absolutely no fear of God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

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Then Abimelech took flocks and herds and male and female slaves, gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him.

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Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could bear children,

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for the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

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Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.

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Abraham named his son who was born to him ​— ​the one Sarah bore to him ​— ​Isaac.

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When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

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Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him[fn] in his old age.”

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The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

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But Sarah saw the son mocking ​— ​the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.

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So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac! ”

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This was very distressing to[fn] Abraham because of his son.

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But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed[fn] about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac,

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Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 -

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 -

And Abraham said, “I swear it.”

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But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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Abraham took flocks and herds and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 -

Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock.

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And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 -

And Abraham lived as an alien in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 -

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham! ”

“Here I am,” he answered.


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