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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 1 / 4 (Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1)

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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 Gen 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:22 - Then He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - And the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - “since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 - “For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - So the LORD went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 - And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Now Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you have in view, that you have done this thing?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - And Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelech took sheep, oxen, and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored Sarah his wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they bore children;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - for the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2 - For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3 - And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:5 - Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:8 - So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 - And Abraham said, “I will swear.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

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1. Currently on page 1/4 (Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1) Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Gen 22:3–Gen 26:5

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Gen 26:15–Psa 105:6

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Psa 105:9–Mic 7:20

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