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Strong's #87: 'Abram (pronounced ab-rawm')

contracted from 48; high father; Abram, the original name of Abraham:--Abram.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'abrâm

Abram = "exalted father"

1) original name of Abraham

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: contracted from H48



Usage:

This word is used 61 times:

Genesis 16:6: " But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid do"
Genesis 16:15: "And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called name,"
Genesis 16:15: "bore Abram a son: and Abram called name, which"
Genesis 16:16: " And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar"
Genesis 16:16: "Ishmael to Abram."
Genesis 17:1: " And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, appeared"
Genesis 17:1: "appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty"
Genesis 17:3: " And Abram fell on his face: and God talked him, saying,"
Genesis 17:5: "thy name any more be called Abram, shall be Abraham; for"
1 Chronicles 1:27: " Abram; the same is Abraham."
Nehemiah 9:7: "the God, who didst choose Abram, out of Ur of the Chaldees,"









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