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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 -

Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram H87, Nahor, and Haran.

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Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram H87, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Abram H87 and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s H87 wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah [fn]and Iscah.

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Now Terah took his son Abram H87, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s H87 wife, and they departed [fn]together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran and [fn]settled there.

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Now the LORD said to Abram H87,

“Go from your country,

And from your relatives

And from your father’s house,

To the land which I will show you;

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So Abram H87 went away as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram H87 was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Abram H87 took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the [fn]people which they had acquired in Haran, and they [fn]set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram H87 passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the [fn]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - And the LORD appeared to Abram H87 and said, “To your [fn]descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Then Abram H87 journeyed on, continuing toward the [fn]Negev.

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Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram H87 went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - Now it came about, when Abram H87 entered Egypt, that the Egyptians [fn]saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - Therefore he treated Abram H87 well for her sake; and [fn]he gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s H87 wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - Then Pharaoh called Abram H87 and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

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So Abram H87 went up from Egypt to the [fn]Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.

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Now Abram H87 was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place of the altar which he had made there previously; and there Abram H87 called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5 - Now Lot, who went with Abram H87, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s H87 livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.

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So Abram H87 said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are relatives!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram H87 [fn]settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot [fn]settled in the cities of the [fn]vicinity of the Jordan, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.

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The LORD said to Abram H87, after Lot had separated from him, “Now raise your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward, and eastward and westward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Then Abram H87 moved his tent and came and lived by the [fn]oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They also took Lot, Abram’s H87 nephew, and his possessions and departed, for he was living in Sodom.

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Then [fn]a survivor came and told Abram H87 the Hebrew. Now he was residing by the [fn]oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and they were [fn]allies with Abram H87.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram H87 heard that his relative had been taken captive, he [fn]led out his trained men, born in his house, numbering 318, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - And he blessed him and said,

“Blessed be Abram H87 of [fn]God Most High,

[fn]Possessor of heaven and earth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - Then the king of Sodom said to Abram H87, “Give the [fn]people to me and take the possessions for yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram H87 said to the king of Sodom, “I have [fn]sworn to the LORD [fn]God Most High, [fn]Possessor of heaven and earth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you do not say, ‘I have made Abram H87 rich.’

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After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram H87 in a vision, saying,

“Do not fear, Abram H87,

I am a shield to you;

[fn]Your reward shall be very great.”

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But Abram H87 said, “Lord [fn]GOD, what will You give me, since I [fn]am childless, and the [fn]heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - Abram H87 also said, “[fn]Since You have given me no [fn]son, [fn]one who has been born in my house is my heir.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - And birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram H87 drove them away.

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Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram H87; and behold, [fn]terror and great darkness fell upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then God said to Abram H87, “Know for certain that your [fn]descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, [fn]where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram H87, saying,

“To your [fn]descendants I have given this land,

From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

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Now Sarai, Abram’s H87 wife, had not borne him a child, but she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram H87, “See now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will [fn]obtain children through her.” And Abram H87 listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - And so after Abram H87 had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s H87 wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram H87 as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - So Sarai said to Abram H87, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your [fn]arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her [fn]sight. May the LORD judge between [fn]you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram H87 said to Sarai, “Look, your slave woman is in your [fn]power; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

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So Hagar bore a son to Abram H87; and Abram H87 named his son, to whom Hagar gave birth, Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram H87 was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to [fn]him.

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Now when Abram H87 was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram H87 and said to him,

“I am [fn]God Almighty;

Walk before Me, and be [fn]blameless.

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Abram H87 fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

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“No longer shall you be named [fn]Abram H87,

But your name shall be [fn]Abraham;

For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27 - and Abram H87, that is Abraham.

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“You are the LORD God,

Who chose Abram H87

And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees,

And gave him the name Abraham.

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