In the Book of Exodus, Amram (/ˈæmræm/ ; Hebrew: עַמְרָם, Modern Amram, Tiberian ʻAmrām ; "Friend of the most high" / "The people are exalted") is the husband of Jochebed and father of Aaron, Moses and Miriam.
In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that she was his father's sister. He is praised for his faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Textual scholars attribute the biblical genealogy to the Book of Generations, a hypothetically reconstructed document theorized to originate from a similar religiopolitical group and date to the priestly source. According to critical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – could not be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses (brother of Aaron), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites (without identifying their names). Critical scholars suspect that the Elohist account offers both matrilinial and patrilinial descent from Levites in order to magnify the religious credentials of Moses.
Amram is a biblical character.
Amram may also refer to:
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Het gets wild at night
Gotta sleep all day
'Cause he's wound so tight
Blowing his brains away
He's in the land of the free
And he wants to be
Someone they all say will make good
But what's reality when you're from the hood
It's evil yea, yea, yea
(Chorus)
Evil, Evil Roy, who is fooling who
Don't you know Evil Evil someone
watching you
Well he got no job so he peddling-fear
Trying to push so hard
No way out of here
It's just the law of the street
Too much heat
Pressure cooking, gonna explode
But where you gonna be
if you lose control
it's evil yea yea yea
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Can't you see that your way
Is going nowhere fast
And your time is just running out
Fighting fire with fire
It will never pass
If evil's what your life's about
(Out Chrus)
When you take never giving
Hide the pain
You stop living