This is the name of Abraham: Patriarch, chosen by God to father His people.
Definition
contracted from H1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram
Traditional renderings: Abraham.
Traditional renderings: Abraham.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
175 total
- Genesis 25:6אַבְרָהָ֖םBut while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
- Genesis 25:7אַבְרָהָ֖ם · AbrahamAbraham lived a total of 175 years.
- Genesis 25:8אַבְרָהָ֛םAnd at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:10 (2×)אַבְרָהָ֖ם · Abraham; אַבְרָהָ֖ם · AbrahamThis was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
- Genesis 25:11אַבְרָהָ֔ם · Abraham’sAfter Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
- Genesis 25:12 (2×)אַבְרָהָ֑ם · of Abraham’s; לְאַבְרָהָֽם׃ · to AbrahamThis is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
- Genesis 25:19 (2×)אַבְרָהָ֑ם · of Abraham’s; אַבְרָהָ֖ם · AbrahamThis is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
- Genesis 26:1אַבְרָהָ֑ם · in Abraham’sNow there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
- Genesis 26:3לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · AbrahamStay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
- Genesis 26:5אַבְרָהָ֖ם · Abraham…because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- Genesis 26:15אַבְרָהָ֣ם · AbrahamSo the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
- Genesis 26:18 (2×)אַבְרָהָ֣ם · Abraham; אַבְרָהָ֑ם · AbrahamIsaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
- Genesis 26:24 (2×)אַבְרָהָ֣ם · Abraham; אַבְרָהָ֥ם · Abraham…and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
- Genesis 28:4 (2×)אַבְרָהָ֔ם · of Abraham; לְאַבְרָהָֽם׃ · to AbrahamAnd may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
- Genesis 28:9אַבְרָהָ֜ם · of Abraham’sEsau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
- Genesis 28:13אַבְרָהָ֣ם · AbrahamAnd there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
- Genesis 31:42אַבְרָהָ֜ם · of AbrahamIf the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- Genesis 31:53אַבְרָהָ֜ם · of AbrahamMay the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 32:9אַבְרָהָ֔ם · AbrahamThen Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Genesis 35:12לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · to AbrahamThe land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
- Genesis 35:27אַבְרָהָ֖ם · AbrahamJacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Genesis 48:15אַבְרָהָ֣ם · AbrahamThen he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
- Genesis 48:16אַבְרָהָ֣ם · Abraham…the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
- Genesis 49:30אַבְרָהָ֜ם · AbrahamThe cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- Genesis 49:31אַבְרָהָ֗ם · AbrahamThere Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
- Genesis 50:13אַבְרָהָ֨ם · AbrahamThey carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
- Genesis 50:24לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · to AbrahamThen Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
- Exodus 2:24אַבְרָהָ֖ם · AbrahamSo God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Exodus 3:6אַבְרָהָ֛ם · of AbrahamThen He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
- Exodus 3:15אַבְרָהָ֜ם · of AbrahamGod also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
- Exodus 3:16אַבְרָהָ֛ם · of AbrahamGo, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
- Exodus 4:5אַבְרָהָ֛ם · of Abraham“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
- Exodus 6:3אַבְרָהָ֛ם · AbrahamI appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.
- Exodus 6:8לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · to AbrahamAnd I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”
- Exodus 32:13לְאַבְרָהָם֩ · AbrahamRemember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
- Exodus 33:1לְאַבְרָהָ֨ם · to AbrahamThen the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
- Leviticus 26:42אַבְרָהָ֛ם · with Abraham…then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
- Numbers 32:11לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · to give Abraham‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
- Deuteronomy 1:8לְאַבְרָהָ֨ם · AbrahamSee, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
- Deuteronomy 6:10לְאַבְרָהָ֛ם · to AbrahamAnd when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
- Deuteronomy 9:5לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · to AbrahamIt is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:27לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · AbrahamRemember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
- Deuteronomy 29:13לְאַבְרָהָ֥ם · to Abraham…and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 30:20לְאַבְרָהָ֛ם · to Abraham…and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”