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Definition of Abraham

1. Noun. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son. "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham"

Definition of Abraham

1. Proper noun. (context Judaism Christianity Islam) A prophet in the Old Testament and Koran; a Semitic patriarch who preached monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac and the Arab patriarch Ishmael. ¹

2. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name). ¹

3. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Abraham

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Abraham A SANCTA CLARA: Monastic name by which a famous German preacher, ... Abraham represents the Catholicism of his age not in its noblest, ..."

2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"Learned, MD Abraham Lincoln an American Migration; Family English not German. ... Leland, CG Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery in the United ..."

3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1913)
"The change of Abraham into Adam is uncalled for. Abraham ... There seems not the smallest reason for substituting 'Adam' for 'Abraham,' whic'n, ..."

4. Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical by Thomas Hobbes (1885)
"Of the Rights of the Kingdom of God, in Abraham, Masts, the High Priests, and the Kings of Judah. THE father of the faithful, and first in the kingdom of ..."

5. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New TestamentsEnglish language (1815)
"And me fat over ag.unit j «¡ And Abraham rofe up early in the i up her voice ... 4 ^4u-n on the third day Abraham lifted lift up the lad, and hold him Up hb ..."

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