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TWOT Reference: 4a
father of an individual
of God as father of his people
head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan
ancestor
grandfather, forefathers — of person
of people
originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
of producer, generator (fig.)
of benevolence and protection (fig.)
term of respect and honour
ruler or chief (spec.)
Strong's Number H1 matches the Hebrew אָב ('āḇ),
which occurs 1,213 times in 1,060 verses
in the WLC Hebrew.
Page 2 / 22 (Gen 28:7–Gen 42:36)
The LORD was standing there beside him,[fn] saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
He told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.”
The LORD said to him, “Go back to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.”
He said to them, “I can see from your father’s face that his attitude toward me is not the same as before, but the God of my father has been with me.
“and that he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not let him harm me.
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s family?
“In fact, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you.”
He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of Canaan, to his father Isaac.
“I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Watch yourself! Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
“Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s family — but why have you stolen my gods? ”
She said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
“If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,[fn] and he issued his verdict last night.”
“The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor — the gods of their father[fn] — will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’
He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.[fn]
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor,[fn] and I’ll give you whatever you say.
But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.
The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s family.
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.
Jacob had twelve sons:
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.
These are Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
This was the Anah who found the hot springs[fn] in the wilderness
while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
chief Magdiel, and chief Iram.
These are Edom’s chiefs,
according to their settlements in the land they possessed.
Esau[fn] was father of the Edomites.
These are the family records of Jacob.
At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.
When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.
He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had? ” he said. “Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you? ”
Reuben also said to them, “Don’t shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him” — intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.
They sent the long-sleeved robe to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it. Is it your son’s robe or not? ”
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh[fn] and said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and my whole family.”
But they replied, “We, your servants, were twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now[fn] with our father, and one is no longer living.”
When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them:
“We were twelve brothers, sons of the same[fn] father. One is no longer living, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! When they and their father saw their bags of silver, they were afraid.
2. Gen 28:7–Gen 42:36
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