avram · Abram

What it means

avram (אַבְרָם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Abram”.

The name of Abraham before God changed it (Genesis 17:5). It means "exalted father".

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×59
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1

• Genesis 11:26

  Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

• Genesis 11:27

  Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

• Genesis 11:29

  Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.

• Genesis 12:1

  YHWH said to Abram, “Go from your land, from your kindred, and from the house of your father to the land that I will show you.

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram went, just as YHWH had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

• Genesis 12:5

  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 12:6

  Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.

• Genesis 12:7

  Then YHWH appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to YHWH, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 12:9

  Then Abram set out, moving on by stages toward the Negev.

• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to reside as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram because of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male slaves, female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 12:17

  But YHWH struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 12:18

  So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

• Genesis 13:1

  Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him.

• Genesis 13:2

  Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

• Genesis 13:4

  to the place of the altar that he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of YHWH.

• Genesis 13:5

  Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheep, cattle, and tents.

• Genesis 13:7

  So there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living then in the land.

• Genesis 13:8

  Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are men, brothers.

• Genesis 13:12

  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

• Genesis 13:14

  YHWH said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

• Genesis 13:18

  So Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and he built there an altar to YHWH.

• Genesis 14:12

  They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, and his possessions, and went away; for he was living in Sodom.

• Genesis 14:13

  One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they had a covenant with Abram.

• Genesis 14:14

  When Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he called out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

• Genesis 14:19

  He blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram of El Elyon, owner of the heavens and earth;

• Genesis 14:21

  The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, and take the possessions for yourself.”

• Genesis 14:22

  But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to YHWH, El Elyon, owner of the heavens and earth,

• Genesis 14:23

  that I will not take a thread or even a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you will not say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

• Genesis 15:1

  After these things the word of YHWH came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram; I am a shield to you; your reward will be very great.”

• Genesis 15:2

  But Abram said, “Adonai YHWH, what will you give me, while I go on childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

• Genesis 15:3

  And Abram said, “Look, to me you have not given offspring; and look, one born in my house will be my heir.”

• Genesis 15:11

  The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

• Genesis 15:12

  As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and look, a terror, a great darkness, was falling on him.

• Genesis 15:13

  Then he said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be resident aliens in a land that is not theirs, and they will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 15:18

  On that day YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Genesis 16:1

  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne him children; and she had an Egyptian slave woman whose name was Hagar.

• Genesis 16:2

  Sarai said to Abram, “Look, YHWH has kept me from bearing children. Go in please to my slave woman; perhaps I will have children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

And 21 more times.