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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 fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:27 - Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but 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[fn] to Abram, “Go from your country[fn] and your kindred and your father’s house 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 went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five 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 Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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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 for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, 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 afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not 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, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:12 - They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:13 - Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks[fn] of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:14 - When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - And he blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
Possessor[fn] of heaven and earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:23 - that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have 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; your reward shall be very great.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue[fn] childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - And 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 - As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon 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 offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give[fn] this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children[fn] by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:15 - And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:16 - Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;[fn] walk before me, and be blameless,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:3 - Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - No longer shall your name be called Abram,[fn] but your name shall be Abraham,[fn] for I have made 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, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
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