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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
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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 70 times in 59 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (2Ki 2:12–2Ki 21:22)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - And Elisha was watching it and he was crying out, “My father H1, my father H1, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see [fn]Elijah again. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father H1 and his mother; for he removed the memorial stone of Baal which his father H1 had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 -

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “[fn]What business do you have with me? Go to your father’s H1 prophets and your mother’s prophets.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:18 -

When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father H1, to the reapers.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - And he said to his father H1, “My head, my head!” And his father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - Then his servants approached and spoke to him, [fn]saying, “My father H1, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father H1, shall I [fn]kill them? Shall I [fn]kill them?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24 - So Joram [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David; and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the [fn]property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when [fn]you and I were riding together after his father H1 Ahab, that the LORD brought this pronouncement against him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28 - Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his grave with his fathers H1 in the city of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3 - select the best and most capable of your master’s sons and seat him on his father’s H1 throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:35 - And Jehu [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and they buried him in Samaria. And his son Jehoahaz became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18 - So Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers H1, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own sacred offerings, and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he withdrew from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21 - For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers H1 in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:9 - And Jehoahaz [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and they buried him in Samaria; and his son Joash became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:13 - So Joash [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 -

When Elisha [fn]became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over [fn]him and said, “My father H1, my father H1, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz again took from the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken in war from the hand of his father H1 Jehoahaz. Three times Joash [fn]defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like his father H1 David; he acted in accordance with everything that his father H1 Joash had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:5 - Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he [fn]killed his servants who had [fn]killed the king, his father H1.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But he did not put the sons of [fn]the murderers to death, in [fn]obedience to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers H1 shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers H1; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:16 - So Jehoash [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and his son Jeroboam became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - Then they carried him on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers H1 in the city of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took [fn]Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father H1 Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:22 - He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king [fn]lay down with his fathers H1.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:29 - And Jeroboam [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, with the kings of Israel, and his son Zechariah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:3 - He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with everything that his father H1 Amaziah had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:7 - And Azariah [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and they buried him with his fathers H1 in the city of David, and his son Jotham became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:9 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers H1 had done; he did not desist from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:22 - And Menahem [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and his son Pekahiah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:34 - He did what was right in the sight of the LORD; he acted in accordance with everything that his father H1 Uzziah had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38 - And Jotham [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and he was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of his father H1 David; and his son Ahaz became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, as his father H1 David had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20 - So Ahaz [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David; and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah [fn]through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments and My statutes in accordance with all the Law which I commanded your fathers H1, and which I sent to you [fn]through My servants the prophets.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:14 - However, they did not listen, but stiffened their neck [fn]like their fathers H1, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers H1, and His warnings which He [fn]gave them. And they followed [fn]idols and became empty, and followed the nations that surrounded them, about which the LORD had commanded them not to do as they did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:41 - So while these nations feared the LORD, they also served their [fn]idols; their children likewise and their grandchildren, just as their fathers H1 did, they do to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:3 - He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with everything that his father H1 David had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:12 - ‘Did the gods of the nations which my fathers H1 destroyed save them: Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - “Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father H1 David says: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I am going to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - ‘Behold, the days are coming when everything that is in your house, and what your fathers H1 have stored up to this day, will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:21 - So Hezekiah [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and his son Manasseh became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he rebuilt the high places which his father H1 Hezekiah had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an [fn]Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the heavenly [fn]lights and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - “And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers H1, if only they will take care to act in accordance with everything that I have commanded them, and with all the Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 - because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers H1 came from Egypt, even to this day.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:18 - And Manasseh [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and his son Amon became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:20 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father H1 Manasseh had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - For he walked [fn]entirely in the way that his father H1 had walked, and served the idols that his father H1 had served, and worshiped them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:22 - So he abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers H1, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

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