אַבְרָם
Abram
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Abram’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H87 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אברם (ʼAbrâm) means “Abram.” Its uses cluster heavily in Genesis (96% of all occurrences). With 50 verses in 3 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 11:26. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H87 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 50
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 50 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #629
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 629 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 50 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 48 verses 96%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 2%
- Nehemiah 1 verse 2%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 50 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 48 verses · 96%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Abram 52×, Abram's 7×
- American Standard Version†: Abram 56×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Abram 52×, Abram’s 3×, Him 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Abram 61×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H87 across 61† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H87 across 61† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H87 across 59† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H87 across 63† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Abram = "exalted father"
- original name of Abraham
Word origin
II. v. אֲבִירָם, אֲבִישַׁי sub II. אבה.
I. n.pr.m. (id., Thes al. exalted father) Abram Gn 11:26, 27 + 57 times Gn (to 17:5) + 1 Ch 1:27 Ne 9:7; = אַבְרָהָם Abraham Gn 17:5, 9, 15 + 172 times OT. (אברהם connected Gn 17:5 by word-play with הם of המון; really = אברם—רום = רהם which however is not found in Heb.—cf. Di > Hal RÉJ 1887, 177 f who proposes אֲבִר הַם גּוֹיִם cf. Gn 49:24 with Is 41:21; so that אֲבִר הָם chief of multitude is the new name of Gn 17:5 (הָם) √המה). SpiegelbergRandglossen 14 cp. Pal. n.pr. geogr. ḥḳrʾ ʾbrru = חקל אברם (c. Egyptian art. masc.), in Sheshonk list. As regards etym., Nöl.c. al. expl. as ‘the father [a divine title] is exalted’ (cf. יְהוֹרָם, מַלְכִּירָם, [אֲ]חִירָם).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אבירם (ʼĂbîyrâm) (H48) — Abiram.
Forms in the corpus
The 24 distinct written forms H87 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַבְרָ֔ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:26 | 11 |
| אַבְרָ֖ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:14 | 10 |
| אַבְרָ֗ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:4 | 8 |
| אַבְרָ֑ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 13:5 | 4 |
| אַבְרָֽם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:17 | 4 |
| אַבְרָם֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:29 | 3 |
| אַבְרָ֜ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 13:8 | 2 |
| אַבְרָ֣ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:31 | 2 |
| אַבְרָ֧ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 11:29 | 2 |
| אַבְרָ֤ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:10 | 1 |
| אַבְרָ֨ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 13:1 | 1 |
| אַבְרָם֩ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:5 | 1 |
| אַבְרָם֮ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 16:5 | 1 |
| בְּ/אַבְרָ֔ם | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 9:7 | 1 |
| וְ/אַבְרָ֕ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 16:16 | 1 |
| וְ/אַבְרָ֖ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 13:2 | 1 |
| וְ/אַבְרָ֗ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:4 | 1 |
| וּ/לְ/אַבְרָ֥ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:16 | 1 |
| לְ/אַבְרָ֔ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 12:18 | 1 |
| לְ/אַבְרָ֖ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 16:15 | 1 |
| לְ/אַבְרָ֗ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 15:13 | 1 |
| לְ/אַבְרָ֣ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 14:13 | 1 |
| לְ/אַבְרָ֥ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 16:3 | 1 |
| לְ/אַבְרָֽם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 16:16 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Abram). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Exalted father. (see ABRAHAM.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a high father), the earlier name of Abraham.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
high father
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 49 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 50 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
