Avram is a male given name. It is a form of the name
Abram
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews ...
, which means ''exalted father''.
NIV Niv may refer to:
* Niv, a personal name; for people with the name, see
* Niv Art Movies, a film production company of India
* Niv Art Centre, in New Delhi, India
NIV may refer to:
* The New International Version, a translation of the Bible into ...
translation of the Bible, footnote to [Petrovsky, p. 35]
The following people share this name:
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Abraham
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the Covenant (biblical), special ...
, the founding patriarch of the Israelites, Ishmaelites, Midianites and Edomite peoples
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Avram Bunaciu
Avram Bunaciu (; 11 November 1909 – 28 April 1983) was a Romanian communist politician who served as the Minister of Justice, Minister of Foreign Affairs and in march 1965 was for 5 days the acting President of the State Council of Romania.
E ...
(1909–1983), Romanian communist politician
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Avram Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky i ...
(born 1928), American linguist and political activist
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Avram Davidson
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jew ...
(1923–1993), American Jewish writer
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Avram Finkelstein
Avram Finkelstein is an American artist, writer, gay rights activist and member of the AIDS art collective Gran Fury.
Finkelstein describes himself as a "red diaper baby", raised by leftist parents who encouraged him to develop an interest in rad ...
, Jewish American artist
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Avram Glazer
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the ...
(born 1960), Jewish American businessperson
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Avram Grant
Avraham "Avram" Grant ( he, אברהם "אברם" גרנט; born Avraham Granat; ) is an Israeli professional football manager. He has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel, winning a number of national league and cup ...
(born 1955), Israeli association football manager
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Avram Hershko
Avram Hershko ( he, אברהם הרשקו, Avraham Hershko, hu, Herskó Ferenc Ábrahám; born December 31, 1937) is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
Biography
He was born Herskó Ferenc in Kar ...
(born 1937), Israeli Nobel laureate biochemist
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Avram Iancu
Avram Iancu (; hu, Janku Ábrahám; 1824 – September 10, 1872) was a Transylvanian Romanian lawyer who played an important role in the local chapter of the Austrian Empire Revolutions of 1848–1849. He was especially active in the Țara Mo ...
(1824–1872), Transylvanian Romanian lawyer
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Avram Petronijević
Avram Petronijević (13 September 1791 – 22 April 1852) was a Serbian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Serbia on several terms and holding the longest term by one Prime Minister in the political histor ...
(1791–1852), Serbian politician
References
Notes
Sources
*Н. А. Петровский (N. A. Petrovsky). "Словарь русских личных имён" (''Dictionary of Russian First Names''). ООО Издательство "АСТ". Москва, 2005.
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Romanian masculine given names
Russian masculine given names
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