Genesis 17:5 “No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for…”

Genesis 17:5

No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

American Standard Version

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

Young's Literal Translation

and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

Bible in Basic English

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

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Cross references

“but thy name”

Matthew 1:21–23 Nehemiah 9:7 Genesis 17:15 Genesis 32:28 Isaiah 62:2–4 Jeremiah 20:3

Matthew 1:21–23 · BSB

She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

Nehemiah 9:7 · BSB

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

Genesis 17:15 · BSB

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

Genesis 32:28 · BSB

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

Isaiah 62:2–4 · BSB

Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

Jeremiah 20:3 · BSB

The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.

Also

Romans 4:17

Romans 4:17 · BSB

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

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