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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.

Genesis 17:5 BSB
  1. a Abram means exalted father.
  2. b Abraham means father of many.
  3. c Cited in Romans 4:17

Genesis 17:5 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 1:21–23 (23 votes) and Nehemiah 9:7 (8 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 12 to Revelation 2.

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Which verses does Genesis 17:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Matthew 1:21–2323 votes

    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.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: …

  2. Nehemiah 9:78 votes

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

  3. Romans 4:176 votes

    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.

  4. Genesis 17:155 votes

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

  5. Genesis 32:284 votes

    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.”

  6. Isaiah 62:2–43 votes

    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. You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God. …

  7. Jeremiah 20:33 votes

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

  8. Revelation 2:173 votes

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.

  9. 2 Samuel 12:252 votes

    and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.

  10. Isaiah 65:152 votes

    You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.

  11. Jeremiah 23:62 votes
  12. John 1:422 votes
  13. Numbers 13:161 vote

Which verses point to Genesis 17:5?

The 10 strongest of 22.