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Lexicon :: Strong's H85 - 'aḇrāhām

Aa
אַבְרָהָם
Transliteration
'aḇrāhām
Pronunciation
ab-raw-hawm'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted from אָב (H1) and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 4b

Strong’s Definitions

אַבְרָהָם ʼAbrâhâm, ab-raw-hawm'; contracted from H1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram:—Abraham.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x

The KJV translates Strong's H85 in the following manner: Abraham (175x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x
The KJV translates Strong's H85 in the following manner: Abraham (175x).

  1. Abraham = "father of a multitude" or "chief of multitude"

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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַבְרָהָם ʼAbrâhâm, ab-raw-hawm'; contracted from H1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram:—Abraham.
STRONGS H85: Abbreviations
אַבְרָהָם Abraham Genesis 17:5, 9, 15 172 times OT.

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H87.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:5; 17:9; 17:15

H85

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Strong's Number H85 matches the Hebrew אַבְרָהָם ('aḇrāhām),
which occurs 175 times in 159 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:22 - And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:7 - And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - And the Lord said, Am I to keep back from Abraham the knowledge of what I do;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 - For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:33 - And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 - And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2 - And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3 - And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:5 - Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:8 - And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:11 - And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 - And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:27 - And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

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1. Currently on page 1/4 (Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1) Gen 17:5–Gen 22:1

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Gen 22:3–Gen 26:5

3. LOAD PAGE 3 Gen 26:15–Psa 105:6

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Psa 105:9–Mic 7:20

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