ABRAHAM, or, in Hebrew, Avraham; the ancestor of the Hebrews through the line of Isaac and Jacob and of the Arabs through Ishmael. The ancestors of Israel are portrayed in the Bible as living a nomadic or pastoral life among the older population of...

(flourished early 2nd millennium &BC;) First of the Hebrew patriarchs, revered by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Genesis tells how Abraham, at 75, left Ur with his barren wife, Sarai (later Sarah), and others to found a new nation in Canaan. There...

Father of the Jewish people. The Book of *Genesis describes how Abraham was promised that he would be the *patriarch of a great nation and his descendants would be as numerous as the stars of the heaven and the sand on the sea-shore. As a result of the...

Viewed in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as the first monotheist. With his wife, Sarah, he was the progenitor of Israel, the community formed by those who abandon idolatry and instead worship the one God. Abraham was called by God to leave his...

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Abraham (Hebrew: ×Ö·×'ְרÖ'×"Ö'×, Standard Avraham Tiberian Ê¾Aá'rÄhÄm Ashkenazi Avrohom or Avruhom ; Arabic: ابراÙÙÙ..., IbrÄhÄ«m ; Ge'ez: á á¥á­áá, ʾAbrÉham) is a figure in the Torah, Bible, and Quran whom...