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Abraham (אַבְרָהָם, avraham, אַבְרָם, avram; Ἀβραάμ, Abraam). Originally called Abram until God changed his name; first of the Old Testament patriarchs; father of Isaac and Ishmael and uncle of Lot. Abraham lived either in the 22nd to 20th centuries bc (during the transition from Early Bronze IV to Middle Bronze I) or in the 19th to 17th centuries bc (Middle Bronze II)—roughly a millennium before the Greek writer Homer.
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