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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 BoxGen 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:26 - And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - And these are the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, [fn]and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:4 - And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I will give this land to thy seed. And Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt—the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and men-servants, and women-servants, and mules, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - And Pharao having called Abram, said, What is this thou hast done to me, that thou didst not tell me that she was thy wife?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place of the altar, [fn]which he built there at first, and Abram there called on the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5 - And Lot who went out with Abram had sheep, and oxen, [fn]and tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are [fn]brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with thine eyes, and behold from the place where thou now art northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - And Abram having [fn]removed his tent, came and dwelt by the oak of Mambre, which was in Chebrom, and he there built an altar to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - And they took also Lot the son of Abram's brother, and his baggage, and departed, for he dwelt in Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - And one of them that had been rescued came and told Abram the [fn]Hebrew; and he dwelt by the oak of Mamre the Amorite the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aunan, who were confederates with Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - And he blessed Abram, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, who made heaven and earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the men, and take the [fn]horses to thyself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I will stretch out my hand to the Lord the most high God, who made the heaven and the earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I will not take from all thy goods from a string to a shoe-latchet, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee, thy reward shall be very great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - And Abram said, Master and Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is mine heir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, I am grieved since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram [fn]sat down by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - And Sara the wife of Abram bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Agar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - And Sara said to Abram, Behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing, go therefore in to my maid, that I may get children for myself through her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sara.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So Sara the wife of Abram having taken Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sara said to Abram, I am injured by thee; I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and when I saw that she was with child, I was dishonoured before her. The Lord judge between me and thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - And Abram said to Sara, Behold thy handmaid is in thy hands, use her as it may seem good to thee. And Sara afflicted her, and she fled from her face.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - And Agar bore a son to Abram; and Abram called the name of his son which Agar bore to him, Ismael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - And Abram was eighty-six years old, when Agar bore Ismael to Abram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am thy God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:3 - And Abram fell upon his face, and God spoke to him, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, [fn] for I have made thee a father of many nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27 - Abraam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 - Thou art the Lord God, thou didst choose Abram, and broughtest him out of the land of the Chaldeans, and gavest him the name of Abraam:
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