Hebrew word · H85

אַבְרָהָם

'avraham

Abraham

Appears 175 times in 159 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.26;

son of: Terah (H8646);

brother of: Nahor (H5152H), Haran (H2039) and Sarah (H8283); married to Sarah (H8283), Hagar (H1904) and Keturah (H6989);

father of: Ishmael (H3458), Isaac (H3327), Zimran (H2175), Jokshan (H3370), Medan (H4091), Midian (H4080), Ishbak (H3435) and Shuah (H7744); also called Abram at Gen.11.26--17.5; 2x

§ Abraham = "father of a multitude" or "chief of multitude"

friend of God and founder of Hebrew nation via God's elective covenant

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Genesis · 133

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Exodus · 9

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Leviticus · 1

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Numbers · 1

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Deuteronomy · 7

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Joshua · 2

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1 Kings · 1

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2 Kings · 1

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1 Chronicles · 6

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2 Chronicles · 2

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Nehemiah · 1

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Psalms · 4

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Isaiah · 4

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Jeremiah · 1

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Ezekiel · 1

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Micah · 1

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Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.