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Zimran (Hebrew: זִמְרָן, Zimrān, 'vine dresser', 'celebrated', 'song'; Greek: Ζεμραμ, Ζεμβραν, [1] Arabic: زمران), also known as Zambran, [2] was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first son of the marriage of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, to Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah.
The following is a family tree for the descendants of the line of Noah's son Shem, through Abraham to Jacob and his sons. Dashed lines are marriage connections. Not all individuals in this portion of the Bible are given names. For example, one English translation of the Bible states in Genesis 11:13 that "After the birth of Shelah,
[2] [3] Medan had five brothers, Zimran, Jokshan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. [4] Josephus tells us that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis and the country of Arabia Felix (Arabia the Happy), as far as it reaches to the Red Sea." [5] Little else is known about him. [6]
Abraham Cohen de Herrera (Hebrew: רבי אברהם כהן בן דוד דה-הירירה), also known as Alonso Nunez de Herrera or Abraham Irira (c. 1570 – c. 1635), was a religious philosopher and cabbalist (a student of Israel Sarug, who was one of Isaac Luria's disciples [1]).
Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; [1] October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics.
Portrait of Hugo Tilghman [The Tennis Player] (1924), oil on cardboard, 1,360 × 1,200 mm (53.5 x 47.2 in), Museo Nacional de Arte. Abraham Ángel Card Valdés (March 7, 1905 – October 27, 1924) was a Mexican artist known under his given names Abraham Ángel; he dropped his surnames after his brother Adolfo expelled him from his family home when Abraham Ángel was barely 16.
Most tessera works during this time would be made up of small pieces of limestone or marble, cut to shape, and arranged by the artist. [2] The artist uses several conventions of the time. The grouping of the characters is varied, meant to create the illusion of space. This "shorthand" way of depicting a crowd is sometimes called a "head cluster".
Photograph of Abraham Wald from the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics. Wald was born on 31 October 1902 in Kolozsvár, Transylvania, in the Kingdom of Hungary. A religious Jew, he did not attend school on Saturdays, as was then required by the Hungarian school system, and so he was homeschooled by his parents until college. [2]