Abraham
Hebrew originAbraham is the covenant name given to Abram; Genesis 50 recalls that he bought Machpelah from Ephron, where Jacob is buried, and Joseph names God's oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
- Meaning
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- Occupation
- Prophet
- First mention
- Genesis 17:5
Family
Parents
Siblings
Scripture references
- Genesis 17:5
you are no longer to be called Abram; your name is to be Abraham...
- Genesis 17:7
I shall maintain my covenant between myself and you, and your descendants after you...
- Genesis 17:19
your wife Sarah will bear you a son whom you must name Isaac.
- Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael ... and circumcised their foreskins that same day...
- Genesis 18:1
Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre...
- Genesis 18:6
Abraham hurried to the tent and said to Sarah, 'Quick, knead three measures of best flour and make loaves.'
- Genesis 18:10
I shall come back to you next year, and then your wife Sarah will have a son.
- Genesis 18:23
Abraham stepped forward and said, 'Will you really destroy the upright with the guilty?'
- Genesis 18:32
perhaps there will only be ten. 'I shall not destroy it,' he replied, 'for the sake of the ten.'
- Genesis 19:27
Next morning, Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before Yahweh,
- Genesis 19:28
he saw the smoke rising from the ground like smoke from a furnace.
- Genesis 19:29
when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he did not forget Abraham and he rescued Lot...
- Genesis 20:2
Abraham said of his wife Sarah, 'She is my sister'...
- Genesis 20:7
for he is a prophet and can intercede on your behalf for your life.
- Genesis 20:17
Abraham then interceded with God, and God healed Abimelech...
- Genesis 21:3
Abraham named the son born to him Isaac...
- Genesis 21:4
Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old...
- Genesis 21:14
Early next morning, Abraham took some bread and a skin of water ... and sent her away.
- Genesis 21:24
'Yes,' Abraham replied, 'I swear it.'
- Genesis 21:31
This was why the place was called Beersheba...
- Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a tamarisk at Beersheba...
- Genesis 22:2
Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah...
- Genesis 22:8
God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering.
- Genesis 22:13
Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush...
- Genesis 22:14
Abraham called this place 'Yahweh provides'...
- Genesis 22:17
I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars...
- Genesis 22:19
Abraham went back to his servants ... and Abraham settled in Beersheba.
- Genesis 23:2
Abraham proceeded to mourn and bewail her.
- Genesis 23:9
let me have the cave he owns at Machpelah...
- Genesis 23:16
Abraham weighed out for Ephron ... four hundred shekels of silver.
- Genesis 23:19
Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah...
- Genesis 24:3
you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites...
- Genesis 24:4
go to my native land and my own kinsfolk to choose a wife for my son Isaac.
- Genesis 24:7
he will now send his angel ahead of you...
- Genesis 25:1
Abraham married another wife whose name was Keturah;
- Genesis 25:5
Abraham left all his possessions to Isaac.
- Genesis 25:8
When Abraham had breathed his last... he was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah...
- Genesis 48:15
Then he blessed Joseph saying: May the God in whose presence my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd from my birth until this day,
- Genesis 48:16
the Angel who has saved me from all harm, bless these boys, so that my name may live on in them, and the names of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and they grow into teeming multitudes on earth!
- Genesis 49:30
in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
- Genesis 49:31
There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried. There Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried; and there I buried Leah-
- Genesis 50:13
His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
- Genesis 50:24
At length Joseph said to his brothers, 'I am about to die; but God will be sure to remember you kindly and take you out of this country to the country which he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.'
- Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning; God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.