What is the difference between abrahamic and abraham?
abrahamic | abraham | Derived terms |
Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.
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(of a religion) Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
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(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 :
* 1980 , Werner Keller, The Bible as History (tr. by William Neil), chapter 7, page 93:
* 1961 , (Kurt Vonnegut), Mother Night , Dell (1975), page 28:
The 14th sura (chapter) of the Quran
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Abraham is a derived term of abrahamic.
As an adjective Abrahamic
is pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch.As a proper noun 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.abrahamic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Baha'i Faith are all Abrahamic religions.
Usage notes
Not all religions that revere Abraham are considered Abrahamic. The term always covers Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and often includes . Other faiths descended from these religions, such as Rastafari and Mandaeism, are sometimes not described as Abrahamic even if they consider Abraham holy.Synonyms
* (pertaining to Abraham) Abrahamical, Ibrahimic * (of the family of religions revering Abraham) Abrahamist, Ibrahimic, SemiticReferences
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(wikipedia Abraham)Proper noun
(s)- 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.
- 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.
- "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."
