Originally named Abram, his name was changed to Abraham after God called him to leave his home country and go to a different land. He became the paternal ancestor of the Israelite and Arab nations.

(ahv-rah-HAHM) n. Abraham. “Father of multitudes.” Son of Terah, and renamed in Genesis 17. Abraham comes from av and hamon, the nations.

Manifestation of the primordial Daskalian (master) who taught the Jewish people about surrender to the Grand Scheme, the divine will: a key principle of the Deep Way.

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"