Lexicon :: Strong's H87 - 'aḇrām

Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

The LORD said to Abram:

Go from your land,

your relatives,

and your father’s house

to the land that I will show you.

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev ​— ​he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him.

to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of the LORD there.

and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.)

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities on the plain and set up his tent near Sodom.

After Lot had separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.

He blessed him and said:

Abram is blessed by God Most High,

Creator[fn] of heaven and earth,

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the possessions for yourself.”

After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:

Do not be afraid, Abram.

I am your shield;

your reward will be very great.

Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the Brook of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River:

Abram’s wife, Sarai, had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering![fn] I put my slave in your arms,[fn] and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the LORD judge between me and you.”

So Hagar gave birth to Abram’s son, and Abram named his son (whom Hagar bore) Ishmael.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live[fn] in my presence and be blameless.

Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him:

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

and Abram (that is, Abraham).

You, the LORD,

are the God who chose Abram

and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,

and changed his name to Abraham.