Abram: meaning of the name

Abram in Hebrew and Greek

Abram in Scripture

“Abram” appears in 50 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 11:26

  And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

• Genesis 11:27

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

• Genesis 11:29

  And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

• Genesis 11:31

  And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

• Genesis 12:1

  Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

• Genesis 12:5

  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

• Genesis 12:6

  And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.