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# אַבְרָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H87

**Abram** — used 61 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Abram [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/87/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַבְרָם: n.pr.m. Abram Abraham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/87/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (id., Thes al. exalted father) Abram Gn 11:26, 27 + 57 times Gn (to 17:5) + 1 Ch 1:27 Ne 9:7; = אַבְרָהָם Abraham Gn 17:5, 9, 15 + 172 times OT. (אברהם connected Gn 17:5 by word-play with הם of המון; really = אברם—רום = רהם which however is not found in Heb.—cf. Di \> Hal RÉJ 1887, 177 f who proposes אֲבִר הַם גּוֹיִם cf. Gn 49:24 with Is 41:21; so that אֲבִר הָם chief of multitude is the new name of Gn 17:5 (הָם) √המה). SpiegelbergRandglossen 14 cp. Pal. n.pr. geogr. ḥḳrʾ ʾbrru = חקל אברם (c. Egyptian art. masc.), in Sheshonk list. As regards etym., Nöl.c. al. expl. as ‘the father \[a divine title\] is exalted’ (cf. יְהוֹרָם, מַלְכִּירָם, \[אֲ\]חִירָם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abram (51); of Abram (9); O Abram (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.27/#tree)

אַבְרָ֖ם ה֥וּא אַבְרָהָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* Abram he \[is\].Abraham

*JPS 1917:* Abram — the same is Abraham.

[Genesis 12:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.12.9/#tree)

וַיִּסַּ֣ע אַבְרָ֔ם הָל֥וֹךְ וְנָס֖וֹעַ הַנֶּֽגְבָּה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.journeyed Abram going and journeying to the south

*JPS 1917:* And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/87.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/87/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).