abraham — ozdic

Collocations

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ADJ.

all, suspicious, uncanny

There was something uncanny about Abraham's ability to predict exactly what would happen next.

VERB + ABRAHAM

asked, believes, name, said, says, slay

God asked Abraham to slay his own son as a test of faith.

ABRAHAM + NOUN

father, god, isaac, ishmael, lincoln, lincoln's, moses, people

Abraham Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War shaped the future of the United States forever.

PREP.

in, in, into

The old painting showed Abraham in the desert with his son Isaac.

ADV.

already, immediately, originally, then, then

Abraham originally came from Mesopotamia before settling in Canaan.

Definitions

name

1

A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch son of Terah who practiced monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac by Sarah and the Arab patriarch Ishmael by Hagar.

Neither ſhall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name ſhall bee Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.

As one would expect of caravan people around 1900 B.C., the caravan people depicted in the Khnum-hotpe grave had donkeys, whereas the Bible says that Abraham and his people, who according to the traditional interpretation are supposed to have lived at the same period, already possessed camels.

2

A male given name from Hebrew.

"Lincoln wasn't a Jew, was he?" he said. "I'm sure not," I said. […] "The name Abraham is very suspicious, to say the least," said Goebbels. "I'm sure his parents didn't realize that it was a Jewish name," I said. "They must have just liked the sound of it. They were simple frontier people. If they'd known the name was Jewish, I'm sure they would have called him something more American, like George or Stanley or Fred."

3

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Farmer also happened to be just the kind of expert that Franck and his co-author Daniel Abraham needed to bring their novels to the screen.

4

The 14th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

noun

1

A shop selling cheap and low-quality clothes, especially in the East End of London.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of

ibrahim

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

sham Abraham

To pretend sickness or insanity.

The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore that I understood my business perfectly well, but that I shammed Abraham merely to be idle.

Example Bank

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01

Neither ſhall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name ſhall bee Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.

Wiktionary

02

As one would expect of caravan people around 1900 B.C., the caravan people depicted in the Khnum-hotpe grave had donkeys, whereas the Bible says that Abraham and his people, who according to the tradi

Wiktionary

03

"Lincoln wasn't a Jew, was he?" he said. "I'm sure not," I said. […] "The name Abraham is very suspicious, to say the least," said Goebbels. "I'm sure his parents didn't realize that it was a Jewish n

Wiktionary

04

Abraham Lincoln's father was a carpenter by trade.

Tatoeba · #67762

05

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.

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06

Abraham Lincoln is a famous person.

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Usage Notes

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