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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 Box Gen 11:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:26 - When Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father's household to the land that I will show you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:4 - So Abram left, just as the LORD had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:2 - (Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - So there were quarrels between Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the LORD there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - He blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, "I raise my hand to the LORD, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I will take nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal. That way you can never say, 'It is I who made Abram rich.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - Abram added, "Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River -

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, "Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her." Abram did what Sarai told him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, "You have brought this wrong on me! I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the LORD judge between you and me!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - Abram said to Sarai, "Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best." Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - So Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, whom Abram named Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - (Now Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:3 - Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 1:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 1:27 - Abram (that is, Abraham).

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:7 - "You are the LORD God who chose Abram and brought him forth from Ur of the Chaldeans. You changed his name to Abraham.
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