Abraham
אַבְרָהָםStrong’s H0085avraham (av-ra-ham)
Appears in 159 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avraham is the Hebrew word usually translated “abraham”, “o abraham” and “from abraham”. It appears in 159 verses of the Old Testament.
“Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.26
How it's translated
- abraham 140
- to abraham 24
- and abraham 8
- o abraham 2
- from abraham 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 117
- Exodus 9
- Deuteronomy 7
- 1 Chronicles 6
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 4
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 17:9And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
- Genesis 17:15And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
- Genesis 17:17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
- Genesis 17:18And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
- Genesis 17:22And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
- Genesis 17:23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
All 159 verses, by book
- Genesis 117
- 17:517:917:1517:1717:1817:2217:2317:2417:2618:618:718:1118:1318:1618:1718:1818:1918:2218:2318:2718:3319:2719:2920:120:220:920:1020:1120:1420:1720:1821:221:321:421:521:721:821:921:1021:1121:1221:1421:2221:2421:2521:2721:2821:2921:3422:122:322:422:522:622:722:822:922:1022:1122:1322:1422:1522:1922:2022:2323:223:323:523:723:1023:1223:1423:1623:1823:1923:2024:124:224:624:924:1224:1524:2724:3424:4224:4824:5224:5925:125:525:625:725:825:1025:1125:1225:1926:126:326:526:1526:1826:2428:428:928:1331:4231:5332:935:1235:2748:1548:1649:3049:3150:1350:24
- Leviticus 1
- 26:42
- Numbers 1
- 32:11
- 1 Kings 1
- 18:36
- 2 Kings 1
- 13:23
- Nehemiah 1
- 9:7
- Jeremiah 1
- 33:26
- Ezekiel 1
- 33:24
- Micah 1
- 7:20
Hebrew dictionary
אַבְרָהָם avraham · Abraham
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.