לֶךְ־לְךָ מֵאַרְצְךָ וּמִמּוֹלַדְתְּךָ וּמִבֵּית אָבִיךָ — in Genesis מוֹלֶדֶת belongs to the field of birth: where you were born and the kin you were born among, which is why it sits between "your land" and "your father's house." Zionist Hebrew gave the word the meaning that now dominates, the national homeland. Ben-Gurion writes of a מולדת בארץ מכורתו ההיסטורית and of planting the people בַּמּוֹלֶדֶת; Kaplansky in 1929 calls Eretz Yisrael מולדתנו. The verse that tells Abram to leave his מולדת is the source of the word Israelis use for the land he was sent to — and Israeli schoolchildren study a subject called מולדת, homeland studies.

אַל־תִּירָא אַבְרָם אָנֹכִי מָגֵן לָךְ שְׂכָרְךָ הַרְבֵּה מְאֹד — straight after the war of the kings, in which Abram refused even a thread or a sandal-strap of the spoils, God promises him a שָׂכָר, a reward. Revival Hebrew kept the reward but put the word to work in the economy: Smolenskin already writes of שכר בעד מפעלו, and Israeli Hebrew has the fully institutional שכר עבודה, שכר מינימום, תלוש שכר. On its own, שכר today means wages; to say "reward" you reach for פרס or תגמול.

וְהֶאֱמִן בַּה' וַיַּחְשְׁבֶהָ לּוֹ צְדָקָה — Abram trusts, and it is counted to him as צְדָקָה: righteousness, right standing, merit. Later Hebrew narrowed the word toward the act that most visibly sets things right, giving to the poor, and that is its default sense today: לתת צדקה, קופת צדקה, the pushke on the kitchen counter. Bergman's history of Jewish charity states the bridge in four words: הצדקה היא ענין של צדק. The verse's meaning survives in formal Hebrew, but a צדקה on a street poster is always a collection.

וְהָיִיתָ לְאַב הֲמוֹן גּוֹיִם — the verse that renames Abram as Abraham explains the new name with הֲמוֹן, "multitude." Mendele writes המון אנשים and המונים המונים; political Hebrew made הֲמוֹנִים the masses and המוני העם the common people. Spoken Hebrew went further and turned the noun into an adverb of quantity: המון אנשים, "loads of people," תודה המון, "thanks a lot." On the Torah's own etymology, the name אַבְרָהָם is built from the word Israelis now use for "tons."