ABRAHAM

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Biblical PN 1. Hebrew prophet and patriarch (1 Nephi 6:4; 15:18; 17:40; 19:10; 22:9; 2 Nephi 8:2; 27:33; 29:14; Jacob 4:5; Mosiah 7:19; 23:23; Alma 5:24; 7:25; 13:15; 29:11; 36:2; Helaman 3:30; 8:16, 17, 18, 19; 3 Nephi 4:30; 20:27; 27:33; Mormon 5:20; 9:11;Ether 13:11)

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Etymology

The biblical PN ABRAHAM is mentioned 27 times in the Book of Mormon with reference to the biblical figure, but never as an individual character in the Book of Mormon. No fully satisfying etymology for the Biblical name has been proposed. [1]

Variants

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Notes


  1. The 1958 edition of Köhler-Baumgartner (s.v.) cites the Ar. ruham, "multitude," with which may be compared the passage in Genesis 17:5, "Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for a father of many nations (Heb. ab hāmôn goyîm) have I made thee," Still, there is no Hebrew word with the root consonants rhm that has the meaning "multitude." Jakob Stamm in his Die akkadische Namengebung (Leipzig:Hinrichs, 1939), 291-2, compares the Akkadian PN Abamrama, but many would prefer a name of Hebrew origin.