The etymology of Abraham , name of the first great patriarch of Jews and Muslims, even in the Bible is explained, where he was told that God himself to change the name of Abram (= the supreme father or [son] of a noble father ) in Abraham, that must mean father of a multitude , when he promised his offspring equal to the number of stars in the sky, although he and his wife Sarah now very old and still childless. The patriarch Abraham is remembered 9 October, while December 19 is honored sant'Abramo confessor of Armenian origin.
In English-speaking countries in use the form Abraham, with the diminutive Abe and Bram ; for Arabs, Abraham becomes Ibrahim . A
give luster to the English version of the name, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) [image] , sixteenth President of the United States and certainly one of the most important: it was Lincoln to abolish slavery in America (1863 ), then also being able to tame the Confederate States who had started the Civil War to his election to the White House. And yet
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912), the Irish author of gothic novels, the father of Dracula .
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