Abram
Abraham's name first appears as Abram (Hebrew: אַבְרָם, Standard
Avram, Tiberian ʾAḇrām), meaning either "exalted father" or
"my father is exalted" (compare Abiram) or "the father is
exalted". Later in Genesis God renamed him Abraham, a name
which the text glosses as av hamon (goyim) "father of many
(nations)";[10] however, the name does not ...
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(a high father), the earlier name of Abraham....
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Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot....
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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....
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And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the
land....
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And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen;
for we [be] brethren....
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And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will
I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD,
who appeared unto him....
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