Avraham אַבְרָהָם

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Avraham
אַבְרָהָם
Transliterationavraham
Strong's numberH85
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossAbraham
Occurrences175 in 159 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (117)

Avraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם, Strong's H85) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Abraham”. It occurs 175 times.

Definition

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 the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVabraham (159), abraham's (14), abraham abraham (1)
BSBabraham (151), abraham's (13), meanwhile abraham (1), again abraham (1), him (1), am abraham's (1), give abraham (1)

Verses

Every verse with Avraham, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Psalms

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Micah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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