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Genesis 11:26

And Terah is living seventy of a duplication, and is generating Raised-Father,445 Snorter, and Mountain.446

Footnote:

445

Abram means Raised Father (Strong’s #87, #85, see Gesenius, Fuerst). -ram is based on the root verb rum (#7311) to be high, rise and is used in the context of Rest’s ark lifted up (Gen. 7:17) a hand raised up (Gen. 14:22), a pillar raised up (Gen. 31:45), a voice raised up (Gen. 39:18), a rod raised up (Ex. 7:20), etc. The renaming of “Raised-Father” to “Father-of-Tumult” in Genesis 17:5 is associated with him becoming a father of a Multitude and marks a prophetic change. See note on Genesis 17:5. The idea of Raised-Father raised might lend to the image of Jesus’ self being lifted up and his new name Father-of-Tumult matches the drawing of men to himself,

Also-myself, if I am lifted up from out of the earth, the whole will draw toward myself.” John 12:32 literal

Hence, in Genesis 17:5 he is “not again called-out Raised-Father.”