Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H87
אַבְרָם
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Abram
61 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼAbrâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H87is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H87
Abram, the original name of Abraham
The King James renders it: Abram.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Abram is rendered "Abram". It stands 61 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Fifty-nine of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:26When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:26אַבְרָ֔ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifty-nine of the word's sixty-one uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Abram49
- to Abram6
- and Abram3
- and to Abram1
- in Abram1
- O Abram1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 61, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַבְרָ֔ם11
- אַבְרָ֖ם10
- אַבְרָ֗ם8
- אַבְרָ֑ם4
- אַבְרָֽם׃4
- אַבְרָם֙3
- אַבְרָ֧ם2
- אַבְרָ֣ם2
- אַבְרָ֜ם2
- אַבְרָם֩1
- אַבְרָ֤ם1
- אַבְרָ֨ם1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)50HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)7HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
Genesis
fifty-nine uses
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
- אַבְרָ֧םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- אַבְרָם֙ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- אַבְרָ֣םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- אַבְרָ֣םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- וְאַבְרָ֗םveavramconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abram
And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
- אַבְרָם֩ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
- אַבְרָם֙ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
- אַבְרָ֤םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
- וּלְאַבְרָ֥םulavramconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Abram
The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
- אַבְרָֽם׃ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
- לְאַבְרָ֔םleavrampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abram
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
- אַבְרָ֨םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
- וְאַבְרָ֖םveavramconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abram
to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
- אַבְרָ֑םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.
- אַבְרָ֜םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
- לְאַבְרָ֣םleavrampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abram
- אַבְרָֽם׃ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
and he blessed Abram and said: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
- אַבְרָם֙ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”
- אַבְרָ֑םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
- אַבְרָֽם׃ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: O Abram
But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
- אַבְרָֽם׃ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
- אַבְרָ֑םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- לְאַבְרָ֗םleavrampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abram
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- לְאַבְרָ֥םleavrampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abram
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
- אַבְרָם֮ʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
- אַבְרָ֜םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
- לְאַבְרָ֖םleavrampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abram
- אַבְרָ֧םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
- וְאַבְרָ֕םveavramconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Abram
- לְאַבְרָֽם׃ סleavrampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Abram
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- אַבְרָ֔םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
- אַבְרָ֗םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
- אַבְרָ֑םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
1 Chronicles
one use
and Abram (that is, Abraham).
- אַבְרָ֖םʾavramproper noun (a name)tagged: Abram
Nehemiah
one use
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- בְּאַבְרָ֔םbeavrampreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Abram
The letters
Gematria 243· 803 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.