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abrahāAbraham

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
519 times in 184 works
Consistency
99.2% (519 of 523)
Reach if approved
~553 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
526 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
abrahā (4)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (519 changes in 184 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 519)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … reputed by God to Abraham for iustice indeede, but not as iustice inherent. And AbrahāAbraham was truly iustified by faith as by an instrumentall cause, not that faith was …
    With rule
    … reputed by God to Abraham for iustice indeede, but not as iustice inherent. And AbrahāAbraham was truly iustified by faith as by an instrumentall cause, not that faith was …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 333 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … xv. &. xviii. pro, foreign quod eſt ſufficiētia, habet foreign Rabbi Selomoh, in cōmētaries, exponit, foreign ſufficiētiā. Rabbi AbrahāAbraham hoc pacto ſcribit. foreign Dagheſſatur ſamech, nam deducitur a foreign quod eſt ſign…m. Ihero…i …
    With rule
    … xv. &. xviii. pro, foreign quod eſt ſufficiētia, habet foreign Rabbi Selomoh, in cōmētaries, exponit, foreign ſufficiētiā. Rabbi AbrahāAbraham hoc pacto ſcribit. foreign Dagheſſatur ſamech, nam deducitur a foreign quod eſt ſign…m. Ihero…i …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxx · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … off the faith of Abra? ād not they that are of the fleſh of AbrahāAbraham and wil you ſay, that they that are of the fleſh of the faithful …
    With rule
    … off the faith of Abra? ād not they that are of the fleſh of AbrahāAbraham and wil you ſay, that they that are of the fleſh of the faithful …

    Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 179 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … But we muste consider to what ende it was that God reuealed himselfe to AbrahāAbraham, and what is contayned in the promise of the multiplication of his seede, and …
    With rule
    … But we muste consider to what ende it was that God reuealed himselfe to AbrahāAbraham, and what is contayned in the promise of the multiplication of his seede, and …

    John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … fayth, and beleeuing in Chriſt, imitate the fayth of Abraham: ſpecially & chiefly, ſeeing that AbrahāAbraham before the lawe (whether it were of Moſes or of the circumciſion) was iuſtified …
    With rule
    … fayth, and beleeuing in Chriſt, imitate the fayth of Abraham: ſpecially & chiefly, ſeeing that AbrahāAbraham before the lawe (whether it were of Moſes or of the circumciſion) was iuſtified …

    Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Iewes vnto him: Thou art not yet fiftie yeares old, & hast thou seene AbrahāAbraham? Iesus sayde vnto them: Ueryly, veryly I say vnto you, ere Abraham was borne …
    With rule
    … the Iewes vnto him: Thou art not yet fiftie yeares old, & hast thou seene AbrahāAbraham? Iesus sayde vnto them: Ueryly, veryly I say vnto you, ere Abraham was borne …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 183 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſhadowe of a mediator. But that which is not ſo plainly ſet downe in AbrahāAbraham, is more apparantly reueiled in his ſeed by Moſes. Moſes, Aaron, and Miriam, who …
    With rule
    … ſhadowe of a mediator. But that which is not ſo plainly ſet downe in AbrahāAbraham, is more apparantly reueiled in his ſeed by Moſes. Moſes, Aaron, and Miriam, who …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … a notable point, and worthy the marking: God made his promises to Abraham: now AbrahāAbraham he doth not onely heare, and learne the promises; but applies thē to himselfe …
    With rule
    … a notable point, and worthy the marking: God made his promises to Abraham: now AbrahāAbraham he doth not onely heare, and learne the promises; but applies thē to himselfe …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 333 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.