87. Abram
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Abram: "exalted father," the original name of Abraham
Original Word: אַבְרָם
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Abram
Phonetic Spelling: (ab-rawm')
Short Definition: Abram

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as Abiram, see Abraham
Definition
"exalted father," the original name of Abraham
NASB Translation
Abram (53), Abram's (7).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
אַבְרָם proper name, masculine (id., Thes and others exalted father) Abram Genesis 11:26,27 57t. Genesis (to Genesis 17:5) + 1 Chronicles 1:27; Nehemiah 9:7; = אַבְרָהָם Abraham Genesis 17:5,9,15 172t. OT. (אברהם connected Genesis 17:5 by word-play with הם of המון; really = רום ֯ אברם = רהם which however is not found in Hebrew — compare Di > HalRÉJ 1887, 177 f who proposes אֲבִר הַם גּוֺיִם compare Genesis 49:21 with Isaiah 41:21; so that אֲבִר הָם chief of multitude is the new name of Genesis 17:5 (הָם) √ המה). SpiegelbRandglossen 14 compare Palestinian proper name geography µ‡r° °brru = חקל אברם (compage Egyptian article masculine), in Sheshonk list. As regards etymology, Nöl.c. and others explained as 'the father [a divine title] is exalted' (compare יְהוֺרָם, מַלְכִּירָם, חִירָם[אֲ]).



Strong's
Abram

Contracted from 'Abiyram; high father; Abram, the original name of Abraham -- Abram.

see HEBREW 'Abiyram

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