Etymology?:
contracted from ʾāv אָב ‘father’ and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
Roots:
אב
ʾavrāhām pr n m pers
Abraham = "father of a multitude" or "chief of multitude"
1) friend of God and founder of Hebrew nation via God's elective covenant
Mentioned in Genesis 17:5, 22:7, 26:3, 26:15, 26:18, 26:24, 28:13, 31:42, 31:53, 32:10, 35:27, 48:15, 48:16, 20:2, 20:9, 20:10, 20:14, 20:17, 20:18, 21:22, 21:25, 21:27, 21:29, 26:1, 17:9, 17:15, 17:17, 17:18, 17:22, 17:23, 17:24, 17:26, 18:6, 18:7, 18:11, 18:13, 18:16, 18:17, 18:18, 18:19, 18:22, 18:23, 18:27, 18:33, 19:27, 19:29, 20:1, 20:11, 21:2, 21:3, 21:4, 21:5, 21:7, 21:8, 21:9, 21:10, 21:11, 21:12, 21:14, 21:24, 21:28, 21:34, 22:1, 22:3, 22:4, 22:5, 22:6, 22:8, 22:9, 22:10, 22:11, 22:13, 22:14, 22:15, 22:19, 22:20, 22:23, 23:2, 23:3, 23:5, 23:7, 23:10, 23:12, 23:14, 23:16, 23:18, 23:19, 23:20, 24:1, 24:2, 24:6, 24:9, 24:12, 24:15, 24:27, 24:34, 24:42, 24:48, 24:52, 24:59, 25:1, 25:5, 25:6, 25:7, 25:8, 25:10, 25:11, 25:12, 25:19, 26:5, 28:4, 28:9, 35:12, 49:30, 49:31, 50:13, 50:24 Exodus 3:6, 3:15, 3:16, 4:5, 2:24, 6:3, 6:8, 32:13, 33:1 Codex Leviticus 26:42 Numbers 32:11 Deuteronomy 1:8, 6:10, 9:5, 29:12, 30:20, 9:27, 34:4 Joshua 24:2, 24:3 1 Kings 18:36 2 Kings 13:23 Isaiah 51:2, 63:16, 29:22, 41:8 Jeremiah 33:26 Ezekiel 33:24 Micah 7:20 Psalms 47:10, 105:6, 105:9, 105:42 Nehemiah 9:7 1 Chronicles 29:18, 1:27, 1:28, 1:32, 1:34, 16:16 2 Chronicles 20:7, 30:6