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Abraham vs Milcah - What's the difference?

abraham | milcah |

As proper nouns the difference between abraham and milcah

is that abraham is a prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch who preached monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac and the Arab patriarch Ishmael while Milcah is a sister-in-law of Abraham: a sister of Sarah.

abraham

English

(wikipedia Abraham)

Proper noun

(s)
  • (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i) A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch who preached monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac and the Arab patriarch Ishmael.
  • * 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 17:5 :
    • Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but they name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
  • * 1980 , Werner Keller, The Bible as History (tr. by William Neil), chapter 7, page 93:
    • 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.
  • * 1961 , (Kurt Vonnegut), Mother Night , Dell (1975), page 28:
    • "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."
  • The 14th sura (chapter) of the Quran

    • Synonyms

    * (Semitic patriarch) Abram

    Derived terms

    * Abrahamic * Gaybraham * Abrahamist

    Related terms

    * (pet forms ) Abe, Abey, Abie * (male given names ) Abram, Bram, Avram * (surnames ) Abrahams

    References

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    milcah

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (biblical character) A sister-in-law of Abraham: a sister of Sarah.
  • (biblical character) A daughter of Zelophehad.
  • * :
    • And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah , and Tirzah.
  • (rare) .

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