Strong's Hebrew · H85

H85 ʼAbrâhâm

אַבְרָהָם

ab-raw-hawm'

Abraham.

When ʼAbrâhâm is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

Abraham, the later name of Abram

Derivation

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

Appears 175 times in Scripture

Genesis 17:15

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

Genesis 17:5

No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:17

Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

Genesis 17:24

So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

Genesis 17:18

And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”

Genesis 17:23

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

Genesis 17:9

God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.

Genesis 17:26

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

Genesis 17:22

When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

When ʼAbrâhâm is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what ʼAbrâhâm means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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