Senses
1. Abram / Abraham (proper noun) — The patriarch Abram (later renamed Abraham), father of Isaac and Ishmael; a proper noun with a single referent across all grammatical contexts — nominative, with prepositions (to, from, belonging-to), and with conjunctions (and-Abraham). All inflectional variation is purely syntactic, not semantic. 175×
AR["إِبْرَاهِيم"]·ben["অব্রাহাম","অব্রাহামের"]·DE["Abraham","Abrahams","an-Abraham"]·EN["Abraham"]·FR["Abraham"]·heb["אברהם"]·HI["अव्रहम","अव्रहम-के","अव्रहम-ने"]·ID["Abraham"]·IT["Abramo"]·jav["Abraham"]·KO["아브라함","아브라함에게서","아브라함을","아브라함의","아브라함이"]·PT["Avraham"]·RU["Авраам","Авраама","Аврааму"]·ES["Avraham"]·SW["Abraham","Ibrahimu","asubuhi","na-alituma"]·TR["İbrahim","İbrahim'e","İbrahim'i","İbrahim'in"]·urd["ابرہام","ابرہام-نے","ابرہام-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
אַבְרָם 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…