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am´ram (עמר×, ‛amraÌ„m, “people exaltedâ€):
(1) Father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam (; ; ; ); and a son of Kohath, the son of Levi (; , etc.). It is not certain that he was literally the son of Kohath, but rather his descendant, since there were ten generations from Joseph to Joshua (-27), while only four are actually mentioned from Levi to Moses for the corresponding period. Moreover the Kohathites at the time of the Exodus numbered 8,600 (), which would therefore have been an impossibility if only two generations had lived. It seems best to regard Amram as a descendant of Kohath, and his wife Jochebed as a “daughter of Levi†in a general sense.
(2) One of the Bani, who in the days of Ezra had taken a foreign wife ().
(3) In (the King James Version) for the properly read HAMRAN of the Revised Version (British and American) (חמרן, ḥamrān), a Horite, who in is called HEMDAN (which see).