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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 3 / 4 (Gen 26:15–Psa 105:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham H85 his father, the Philistines stopped up [fn]by filling them with earth.

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Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which [fn]had been dug in the days of his father Abraham H85, but the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham H85; and he [fn]called them by the same names by which his father had called them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said,

“I am the God of your father Abraham H85;

Do not fear, for I am with you.

I will bless you and multiply your seed,

For the sake of My servant Abraham H85.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:4 - “May He also give you the blessing of Abraham H85, to you and to your seed with you, that you may possess the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham H85.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:9 - and Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s H85 son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife, besides the wives that he had.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - And behold, Yahweh stood [fn]above it and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham H85 and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - “If the God of my father, the God of Abraham H85, and the dread of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered the decision last night.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - “The God of Abraham H85 and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the dread of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 -

And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham H85 and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your kin, and I will [fn]prosper you,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:12 -

“And the land which I gave to Abraham H85 and Isaac,

I will give it to you,

And I will give the land to your seed after you.”

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And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham H85 and Isaac had sojourned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:15 - And he blessed Joseph and said,

“May the God before whom my fathers Abraham H85 and Isaac walked,

The God who has been my shepherd [fn]throughout my life to this day,

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The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,

Bless these boys;

And may my name [fn]live on in them,

And the [fn]names of my fathers Abraham H85 and Isaac;

And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham H85 bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial site.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - “There they buried Abraham H85 and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - Indeed, his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham H85 had bought along with the field for his possession as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely [fn]take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:24 - So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham H85, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:6 - He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham H85, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:15 - And God furthermore said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham H85, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name from generation to generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - “Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham H85, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “[fn]I indeed care about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:5 - “that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham H85, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:3 - and I appeared to Abraham H85, Isaac, and Jacob, as [fn]God Almighty, but by My name, Yahweh, I was not known to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:8 - ‘And I will bring you to the land which I [fn]swore to give to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am Yahweh.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - “Remember Abraham H85, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You said to them, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Go! Go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘To your seed I will give it.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:42 - then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham H85 as well, and I will remember the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - ‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:8 - ‘See, I have given over the land before you; go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and to their seed after them.’

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“Then it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and good cities which you did not build,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5 - “It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to confirm the [fn]oath which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:27 - ‘Remember Your servants, Abraham H85, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stiff-neck of this people or at their wickedness or their sin,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:13 - in order that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - by loving Yahweh your God, by listening to His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for [fn]this is your life and the length of your days, [fn]that you may live in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:4 - Then Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham H85, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your seed’; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the [fn]River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham H85 and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - ‘Then I took your father Abraham H85 from beyond the [fn]River and led him through all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:36 - Now it happened at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Yahweh, the God of Abraham H85, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your slave and I have done all these things at Your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23 - But Yahweh was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham H85, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not bring them to ruin or cast them from His presence until now.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27 -

Abram, that is Abraham H85.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:28 -

The sons of Abraham H85 were Isaac and Ishmael.

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The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s H85 concubine, whom she bore, were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:34 -

Abraham H85 became the father of Isaac.

The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:16 -

Which He cut with Abraham H85,

And His oath to Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:18 - “O Yahweh, the God of Abraham H85, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the [fn]intentions of the heart of Your people, and prepare their heart to You;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:7 - “Did You not, O our God, dispossess the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to the seed of Abraham H85 Your friend forever?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:6 - And the [fn]couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the commandment of the king, saying, “O sons of Israel, return to Yahweh, the God of Abraham H85, Isaac, and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and remain from the [fn]hand of the kings of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 -

“You are Yahweh God,

Who chose Abram

And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees,

And gave him the name Abraham H85.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:9 -

The nobles of the peoples have assembled themselves with the people of the God of Abraham H85,

For the shields of the earth belong to God;

He [fn]is highly exalted.

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O seed of Abraham H85, His servant,

O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!


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