ʼAbrâhâm — H85

H85 · Hebrew — אברהם

Pronunciation: ab-raw-hawm'

Definition

masculine proper noun

Abraham, the later name of Abram

  1. Abraham = "father of a multitude" or "chief of multitude"
  2. friend of God and founder of Hebrew nation via God's elective covenant

Usually translated as

Abraham

Origin

contracted from H1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

ʼAbrâhâm occurs 175 times in 159 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (117), Exodus (9), Leviticus (1), Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (7), Joshua (2), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (6), 2 Chronicles (2), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (4), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (1), Micah (1)

Strong's Lexicon — A