avraham · Abraham

What it means

avraham (אַבְרָהָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Abraham”.

The name God gave to Abram; it sounds like "father of a multitude" (Genesis 17:5). The father of the people of Israel, to whom God promised the land and blessing for all the families of the earth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×133
• 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

• Genesis 17:5

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

• Genesis 17:9

  Elohim said to Abraham, “As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

• Genesis 17:15

  Elohim said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.

• Genesis 17:17

  Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a son be born to one who is a hundred years old? And Sarah, will she, at ninety years, give birth?”

• Genesis 17:18

  Abraham said to Elohim, “If only Ishmael might live before you!”

• Genesis 17:22

  When he finished speaking with him, Elohim went up from Abraham.

• Genesis 17:23

  Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house and all those bought with his silver, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, as Elohim had told him.

• Genesis 17:24

  Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 17:26

  On that very day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

• Genesis 18:6

  So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, three seahs of flour, fine flour! Knead it and make cakes.”

• Genesis 18:7

  And to the herd Abraham ran, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the young man, who hurried to prepare it.

• Genesis 18:11

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

• Genesis 18:13

  YHWH said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh like this, saying, ‘Will I really give birth, when I am old?’

• Genesis 18:16

  Then the men got up from there and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them on their way.

• Genesis 18:17

  YHWH said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,

• Genesis 18:18

  since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

• Genesis 18:19

  For I have known him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of YHWH by doing righteousness and justice, so that YHWH may bring upon Abraham what he has spoken about him.”

• Genesis 18:22

  The men turned from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before YHWH.

• Genesis 18:23

  Abraham came near and said, “Will you really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

• Genesis 18:27

  Abraham answered and said, “Look, I have ventured to speak to Adonai, though I am dust and ashes.

• Genesis 18:33

  YHWH went his way when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

• Genesis 19:27

  Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before YHWH.

• Genesis 19:29

  So it was that when Elohim destroyed the cities of the plain, Elohim remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overturning, when he overturned the cities in which Lot had lived.

• Genesis 20:1

  Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur, and he resided as an alien in Gerar.

• Genesis 20:2

  Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

• Genesis 20:9

  Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Deeds that ought not to be done you have done to me.”

• Genesis 20:10

  And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you did this thing?”

• Genesis 20:11

  Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely there is no fear of Elohim in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’

• Genesis 20:14

  Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle, and male slaves and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and he returned to him Sarah his wife.

• Genesis 20:17

  Then Abraham prayed to Elohim, and Elohim healed Abimelech, his wife, and his slave women, so that they bore children.

• Genesis 20:18

  For YHWH had completely closed every womb in the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

• Genesis 21:2

  Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him.

• Genesis 21:3

  Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

• Genesis 21:4

  Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him.

• Genesis 21:5

  Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.

• Genesis 21:7

  And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

• Genesis 21:8

  The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

• Genesis 21:9

  But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.

• Genesis 21:10

  And she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not inherit with my son, with Isaac.”

• Genesis 21:11

  The matter was greatly displeasing in the eyes of Abraham on account of his son.

And 135 more times.