Abraham: meaning of the name

Abraham in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Abraham in the Bible

• Abraham, son of Terah

  277 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 11:26 · Genealogy of Jesus

Abraham in Scripture

“Abraham” appears in 230 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 17:5

  Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

• Genesis 17:9

  And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

• Genesis 17:15

  And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

• Genesis 17:17

  Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

• Genesis 17:18

  And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!

• Genesis 17:22

  And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

• Genesis 17:23

  And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

• Genesis 17:24

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