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Lexicon :: Strong's H1 - 'āḇ

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אָב
Transliteration
'āḇ
Pronunciation
awb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A root
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TWOT Reference: 4a

Strong’s Definitions

אָב ʼâb, awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application:—chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,215x

The KJV translates Strong's H1 in the following manner: father (1,205x), chief (2x), families (2x), desire (1x), fatherless (with H369) (1x), forefathers (with H7223) (1x), patrimony (1x), prince (1x), principal (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,215x
The KJV translates Strong's H1 in the following manner: father (1,205x), chief (2x), families (2x), desire (1x), fatherless (with H369) (1x), forefathers (with H7223) (1x), patrimony (1x), prince (1x), principal (1x).
  1. father of an individual

  2. of God as father of his people

  3. head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan

  4. ancestor

    1. grandfather, forefathers — of person

    2. of people

  5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art

  6. of producer, generator (fig.)

  7. of benevolence and protection (fig.)

  8. term of respect and honour

  9. ruler or chief (spec.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָב ʼâb, awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application:—chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
STRONGS H1: Abbreviations
אָב 1191 noun masculine father (Phoenician אב, Assyrian abu, Arabic أَبً, Sabean אב CISiv, 1, 37 1. 2 and others, Ethiopic አብ፡ Aramaic אַבָּא, axBAf  — absolute אָב Genesis 44:19 + 47 times; construct אַב Genesis 17:4, 5; (compare in אַבְרָהָם ib. & elsewhere in proper names. On Hal's proposed אֲבִר see אברהם); אֲבִי (compare Ge§§ 90, 3b, 96) Genesis 4:20 +; suffix אָבִי Genesis 19:34 + (MI אבי); אָבִיךָ Genesis 12:1 +; אָבִיו Genesis 2:24 +; אָבִ֫יהוּ Judges 14:10 + 6 times; plural אָבוֺת Exodus 12:3 +; construct אֲבוֺת Exodus 6:25 + 7 times; suffix אֲבוֺתַי (אֲבֹתַי, אֲבוֺתָ֑י) Genesis 47:9 + 15 times; אֲבוֺתֵיהֶם 1 Chronicles 4:38 + 32 times (late); אֲבוֺתָם Exodus 4:5 + 106 times etc.;
1. father of individual Genesis 2:24 (+ אֵם) Genesis 11:28, 29 (twice in verse); Genesis 19:31, 32, 33, + often (mostly J E D); of father as commanding Genesis 50:16 (J) Jeremiah 35:6f, Proverbs 6:20 (compare Genesis 18:19; J Genesis 28:1, 6 P 1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Kings 2:1); instructing מוסר Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 4:1 (compare Deuteronomy 8:5); specifically as begetter, genitor Proverbs 23:22; Zechariah 13:3 (twice in verse) (+ אֵם) Isaiah 45:10; compare Genesis 49:4 (J) Leviticus 18:7, 8, 11 (P); rebuking Genesis 37:10; loving Genesis 37:4; Genesis 44:20 (JE; compare Genesis 22:2; Genesis 25:28; Genesis 37:3; 2 Samuel 14:1); pitying Psalm 103:13 (in simile compare 2 Samuel 18:5); blessing Genesis 27:41 (JE compare Genesis 27:4; also Genesis 28:1 P +); as glad Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20; compare Proverbs 29:3; grieving Genesis 37:35 (JE; compare 2 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 19:1; 2 Samuel 19:2f) etc. Also as object of honour, obedience, love Exodus 20:12 (E)=Deuteronomy 5:16; Exodus 21:15, 17 (E) Deuteronomy 21:18, 19; Genesis 28:7 (P) 1 Kings 19:20 (all + אֵם), Genesis 50:1; Genesis 50:5 (J) Malachi 1:6 etc. Hence metaphor of intimate connection Job 17:14 to corruption I cry, My father art thou (|| אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָֽרִמָּה).
2. of God as father of his people (see RSSem 42), who constituted, controls, guides and lovingly watches over it: Deuteronomy 32:6; Jeremiah 3:4, 19; Jeremiah 31:9; Isaiah 63:16 (twice in verse); Isaiah 64:7; Malachi 1:6; Malachi 2:10 (compare Exodus 4:22; Exodus 19:4 (JE) Deuteronomy 32:11; Hosea 11:1); compare Jeremiah 2:27 (of idolatrous Israel) אֹמְרִים לָעֵץ אָבִי אַתָּה וְלָאֶבֶן אַתְּ ילדתני׃; especially God as father of Davidic line 2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 89:27; f. of needy (late) Psalm 68:6 (compare Psalm 103:13) (in proper name, father of individual, compare below)
3. head of household, family or clan; בֵּית אָבִי as abode Genesis 38:11 (twice in verse); Leviticus 22:13 +; = family Genesis 24:40 (|| מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי) Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:31Numbers 18:1, 2; Joshua 2:12, 18; Joshua 6:25; especially techn. of divisions of Israel לְמִשְׁפָּחוֹת אָב בֵּית Numbers 3:30, 35 = a father's house, i.e. a family or clan; more often plural (אבותם, אבותיו) בֵית אָבוֺת = father's houses = families, clans (compare Di on Exodus 6:14) Exodus 6:14; Exodus 12:3; Numbers 1:2, 18 ff (often in Numbers) Joshua 14:1; Joshua 19:51; Joshua 21:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 22:14 (twice in verse) (always P in Hexateuch); also 1 Chronicles 5:13, 15 + often in Chronicles; compare רָאשֵׁי אבות הלוים (= 'בית א 'ר) Exodus 6:25 compare 1 Kings 8:1; 1 Chronicles 6:4; 1 Chronicles 7:11 — Ezra Nehemiah.
4. ancestor
(a) of individual; grandfather (instead of precise term) Genesis 28:13; Genesis 31:10 [Genesis 32:9] (J; where used by Jacob of Abraham & then of Isaac); greatgrandfather 1 Kings 15:13; great-greatgrandfather 1 Kings 15:11 etc.; oft plural (= fathers, forefathers) Genesis 15:15; Genesis 46:34 (JE) 1 Kings 19:4; 1 Kings 21:3, 4; 2 Kings 19:12; 2 Kings 20:17 +; particularly שׁכב עם אבותיו 1 Kings 1:21; 1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 11:21; 1 Kings 22:40 +; joined with ויקבר עם אב׳ 1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings 22:51; 2 Kings 8:24; 2 Kings 15:38 compare 2 Kings 15:7, 2 Kings 16:20 + (all of kings of Judah); intensive, אֲבֹתֶיךָ וַאֲבוֺת אֲבֹתֶיךָ Exodus 10:6 compare Daniel 11:24;
(b) of people Genesis 10:21 (J) Genesis 17:4, 5 (P) Genesis 19:37, 38 (J) Genesis 36:9, 43 (P) Deuteronomy 26:5; Isaiah 51:2; Isaiah 43:27 (where אביך הראשׁון thy first father, see Che) compare also Ezekiel 16:3, 45 + often; plural Exodus 3:13, 15, 16 (E) Deuteronomy 1:8; Joshua 1:6; Judges 2:1; 1 Samuel 12:6 +; 1 Samuel 12:15 near the end read וּבְמַלְכְּכֶם Greek Version of the LXX We Dr.
5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art Genesis 4:20, 21.
6. figurative of producer, Generator Job 38:28 הֲיֵשׁ לַמָּטָר אָ֑ב (|| הוֺלִיד אֶגְלֵי־טָֽל׃ מִי־).
7. figurative of benevolence & protection Job 29:6 אָב אָֽנֹכִי לָֽאֶבְיוֺנִים, compare Job 31:18; of Eliakim Isaiah 22:21; perhaps also of gracious Messianic king אֲבִי עַד Isaiah 9:5 [Isaiah 9:6] everlasting father (Ge Ew De Che Brd Di) — others divider of spoil (Abarb Hi Kn Kue BrMP).
8. term of respect & honour (Abbas, Pater, Papa, Pope); applied to master 2 Kings 5:13; priest Judges 17:10; Judges 18:19; prophet 2 Kings 2:12 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 6:21; 2 Kings 13:14 (twice in verse); compare 2 Kings 8:9; counsellor Genesis 45:8 (E; compare δευτέρου πατρός Greek Version of the LXX add. Esther 3:13; τῷ πατρί1Mac Esth 11:32); king 1 Samuel 24:12; artificer 2 Chronicles 2:12; 2 Chronicles 4:16.
9. specifically, ruler, chief (late) 1 Chronicles 2:24, 42 (twice in verse); etc. (compare Ew§ 273 b) see also EwGeschichte. i. 524. H i. 365. On the force of אָב in proper names (in many probably a divine title), see CheEncy. Bib., ABI, NAMES WITHib., NAMES, §§ 44, 45.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:24; 2:24; 4:20; 4:20; 4:21; 10:21; 11:28; 11:29; 12:1; 15:15; 17:4; 17:4; 17:5; 17:5; 18:19; 19:31; 19:32; 19:33; 19:34; 19:37; 19:38; 22:2; 24:40; 25:28; 27:4; 27:41; 28:1; 28:1; 28:6; 28:7; 28:13; 32:9; 36:9; 36:43; 37:3; 37:4; 37:10; 37:35; 38:11; 41:51; 44:19; 44:20; 45:8; 46:31; 46:34; 47:9; 49:4; 50:1; 50:5; 50:16

Exodus

3:13; 3:15; 3:16; 4:5; 4:22; 6:14; 6:14; 6:25; 6:25; 10:6; 12:3; 12:3; 19:4; 20:12; 21:15; 21:17

Leviticus

18:7; 18:8; 18:11; 22:13

Numbers

1:2; 1:18; 3:30; 3:35; 18:1; 18:2

Deuteronomy

1:8; 5:16; 8:5; 21:18; 21:19; 26:5; 32:6; 32:11

Joshua

1:6; 2:12; 2:18; 6:25; 14:1; 19:51; 21:1; 22:14

Judges

2:1; 14:10; 17:10; 18:19

1 Samuel

12:6; 12:15; 17:20; 24:12

2 Samuel

7:14; 12:22; 14:1; 18:5; 19:1; 19:2

1 Kings

1:21; 2:1; 2:10; 8:1; 11:21; 14:31; 15:11; 15:13; 15:24; 19:4; 19:20; 21:3; 21:4; 22:40; 22:51

2 Kings

2:12; 5:13; 6:21; 8:9; 8:24; 13:14; 15:7; 15:38; 16:20; 19:12; 20:17

1 Chronicles

2:24; 2:42; 4:38; 5:13; 5:15; 6:4; 7:11

2 Chronicles

2:12; 4:16

Esther

3:13

Job

17:14; 29:6; 31:18; 38:28

Psalms

68:6; 89:27; 103:13; 103:13

Proverbs

1:8; 4:1; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20; 23:22; 29:3

Isaiah

9:6; 22:21; 43:27; 45:10; 51:2; 63:16; 64:7

Jeremiah

2:27; 3:4; 3:19; 31:9; 35:6

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:45

Daniel

11:24

Hosea

11:1

Zechariah

13:3

Malachi

1:6; 1:6; 2:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1 matches the Hebrew אָב ('āḇ),
which occurs 95 times in 80 verses in '1Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 1:6–1Ki 12:11)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:6 - And his father H1 had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:21 - Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, H1 that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:10 - So David slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in the city of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:12 - Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; H1 and his kingdom was established greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:24 - Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, H1 and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, H1 and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father H1 was afflicted.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:31 - And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father H1 David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:44 - The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: H1 therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:3 - And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: H1 only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:6 - And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father H1 great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: H1 and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:14 - And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father H1 David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:1 - And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: H1 for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:3 - Thou knowest how that David my father H1 could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:5 - And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, H1 saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:12 - Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father H1 was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:51 - So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father H1 had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:1 - Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers H1 of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, H1 and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:17 - And it was in the heart of David my father H1 to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:18 - And the LORD said unto David my father, H1 Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:20 - And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, H1 and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:21 - And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, H1 when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:24 - Who hast kept with thy servant David my father H1 that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father H1 that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:26 - And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:40 - That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:48 - And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, H1 the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers H1 out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:57 - The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: H1 let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:58 - That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:4 - And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father H1 walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:5 - Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, H1 saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:9 - And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers H1 out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:6 - And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:12 - Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's H1 sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17 - That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's H1 servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:21 - And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, H1 and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:27 - And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:43 - And Solomon slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in the city of David his father: H1 and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4 - Thy father H1 made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, H1 and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 - And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father H1 while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father H1 did put upon us lighter?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father H1 made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's H1 loins.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:11 - And now whereas my father H1 did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father H1 hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

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