Lexicon Abram: "exalted father," the original name of Abraham Original Word: אַבְרָםPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Abram Phonetic Spelling: (ab-rawm') Short Definition: Abram NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as Abiram, see AbrahamDefinition"exalted father," the original name of Abraham NASB TranslationAbram (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 > Hal RÉJ 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). Spiegelb Randglossen 14 compare Palestinian proper name geography µ‡r° °brru = חקל אברם (compage Egyptian article masculine), in Sheshonk list. As regards etymology, Nö l.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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