Abraham

(noun.) the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; 'Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham'.

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• There follows a history of the fathers and founders of the Hebrew nation, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Abraham weighs to Ephron the four hundred shekels of silver which he had agreed to pay for the field of Machpelah. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Damascus dates back anterior to the days of Abraham, and is the oldest city in the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Abraham in red going to sacrifice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yellow cast into a den of green lions, were the most prominent of these. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This reflection does not, however, abate in the slightest our sense of bereavement in the untimely loss of so good and great a man as Abraham Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• New names appear on the records, Lord Brouncker, Sir Robert Moray, John Evelyn, Brereton, Ball, Robert Hooke, and Abraham Cowley. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This was in the days of the patriarch Abraham. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We descended to the Plain again, and halted a moment at a well--of Abraham's time, no doubt. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It inspired a great number of Babylonians and the like to claim Abraham as their father, and thrust their company upon the returning Jews. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Abraham and Moses were strangers in the land, and we are told to entertain strangers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was a frontispiece to the volume, representing Abraham sacrificing Isaac. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The God of Abraham, says the Bible narrative, promised this smiling land of prosperous cities to him and to his children. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling--so help me the God of Abraham! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• By Ferguson I mean our dragoman Abraham, of course. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Wells were coeval with Abraham when his servant had the celebrated interview with Rebecca. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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