Abiram

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The origin of the name Abiram is Hebrew

 

This is how Abiram is written in Hebrew

 

אֲבִירָם = Abiyram

 

The meaning of the name Abiram is: my father is exalted

 

Abiram was the son of Eliab in exodus also another Abiram was the son of Hiel the Bethelite who worked to rebuild Jericho

 

The name Abiram appears in the bible in the following verses:

 

Numbers 16:1 KJV
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:

Numbers 16:12 KJV
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:

Numbers 16:24 KJV
Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

Numbers 16:25 KJV
And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

Numbers 16:27 KJV
So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

Numbers 26:9 KJV
And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD:

Deuteronomy 11:6 KJV
And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

1 Kings 16:34 KJV
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

Psalm 106:17 KJV
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.