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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 63 times in 62 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Jer 2:5–Jer 35:8)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:5 - Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers H1 found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; H1 and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:4 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, H1 thou art the guide of my youth?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:19 - But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; H1 and shalt not turn away from me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:24 - For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers H1 from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:25 - We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, H1 from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:21 - Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers H1 and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:7 - Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, H1 for ever and ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:14 - Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, H1 as I have done to Shiloh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:18 - The children gather wood, and the fathers H1 kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:22 - For I spake not unto your fathers, H1 nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:25 - Since the day that your fathers H1 came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:26 - Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers H1 taught them:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:16 - I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers H1 have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:4 - Which I commanded your fathers H1 in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:5 - That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, H1 to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:7 - For I earnestly protested unto your fathers H1 in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, H1 which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 - For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, H1 even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:14 - And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers H1 and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:20 - We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: H1 for we have sinned against thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:3 - For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers H1 that begat them in this land;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father H1 or for their mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:11 - Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers H1 have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - And ye have done worse than your fathers; H1 for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:13 - Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; H1 and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:15 - But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers H1 have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:22 - Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4 - Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers H1 have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:15 - Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, H1 saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:11 - For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, H1 which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:15 - Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father H1 eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers H1 have forgotten my name for Baal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:39 - Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, H1 and cast you out of my presence:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:10 - And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:5 - They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers H1 for ever and ever:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:3 - For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, H1 and they shall possess it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:9 - They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father H1 to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:29 - In those days they shall say no more, The fathers H1 have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers H1 in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:18 - Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers H1 into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:22 - And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers H1 to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, H1 the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers H1 in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:14 - At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers H1 hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:6 - But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father H1 commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:8 - Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father H1 in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

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