1. Abram (proper name) — The proper masculine name Abram (Hebrew אַבְרָם), the original name of the patriarch Abraham before God renamed him (Genesis 17:5). All 61 occurrences refer to the same individual with only prepositional/conjunctional variation. Multilingual translations are fully consistent: eng 'Abram', spa 'Abram/Avram', hin अव्रम, arb أَبْرَام, kor 아브람, swa 'Abramu'. The prepositional form (S79838 'in Abram') is a syntactic variant, not a distinct sense. 61×
AR["أَبْرَامَ","أَبْرَامُ"]·ben["অব্রাম","অব্রামের"]·DE["Abram","Abrams","dem-Abram"]·EN["Abram"]·FR["Abram"]·heb["אברם"]·HI["अव्रम","अव्रम-कि","अव्रम-के","अव्रम-ने"]·ID["Abram"]·IT["Abramo"]·jav["Abram"]·KO["아브람","아브람과","아브람은","아브람의","아브람이"]·PT["Avram"]·RU["Аврам","Аврама","Аврамом","Авраму"]·ES["Abram"]·SW["Abramu"]·TR["Avram","Avram'a","Avram'ı","Avram'ın"]·urd["ابرام","ابرام-نے","ابرام-کی","ابرام-کے"]
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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…