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Amram
What we know — and how we know it
Bible — stated in scripture (with verse) · 3
Scholarly — supported scholarly belief · 2
Family & lineage
ScholarlyA Second Temple Aramaic pseudepigraphon known as the 'Visions of Amram' (Qumran manuscripts 4Q543-549) presents itself as the testament of Amram, father of Moses and Aaron, addressing his children. It is a later work built around the biblical figure, not evidence of the man himself, but it shows his prominence in early Jewish tradition.
Dead Sea Scrolls: Visions of Amram, 4Q543-549 (Cave 4, Qumran).
Tribe & people
BibleOf the tribe of Levi.
Exodus 6:20
Name & titles
ScholarlyThe name Amram ('Amram) combines 'am ('people/kinsman') with the root r-w-m ('to be high/exalted'), giving a meaning such as 'the (divine) kinsman is exalted' or 'exalted people.' The formation is a standard West Semitic sentence-name type.
Onomastic derivation from 'amm- + rwm; standard Hebrew lexical analysis.
Where in scripture
ExodusAmram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
Exodus 6:20 — Father of Aaron and Moses
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.