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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 1,213 times in 1,060 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 22 (Deu 7:8–Deu 32:17)

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:8 - but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, H1 the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of [fn]slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:12 - “Then it shall come about, because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you [fn]His covenant and [fn]His lovingkindness which He swore to your forefathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - “He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, [fn]in the land which He swore to your forefathers H1 to give you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:1 - “All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers H1 know, that He might make you [fn]understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:16 - “In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers H1 did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you [fn]in the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:18 - “But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, H1 as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5 - “It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the [fn]oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, H1 to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:11 - “Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, proceed on your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers H1 to give them.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - “Yet on your fathers H1 did the LORD set His affection to love them, and He chose their [fn]descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - “Your fathers H1 went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:9 - so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers H1 to give to them and to their [fn]descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:21 - so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers H1 to give them, as [fn]long as the heavens remain above the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:1 - “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, H1 has given you to possess [fn]as long as you live on the [fn]earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:6 - “If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife [fn]you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers H1 have known,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - “Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the LORD may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:8 - “They shall eat [fn]equal portions, except what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ H1 estates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - “If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, H1 and gives you all the land which He [fn]promised to give your fathers H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - “She shall also [fn]remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father H1 and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - “If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father H1 or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - then his father H1 and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city [fn]at the gateway of his hometown.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:15 - then the girl’s father H1 and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:16 - “The girl’s father H1 shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he [fn]turned against her;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, H1 because he [fn]publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot [fn]divorce her all his days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s H1 house, and the men of her city shall stone her [fn]to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s H1 house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:29 - then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father H1 fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:30 - [fn]A man shall not take his father’s H1 wife so that he will not uncover his father’s H1 skirt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:16 - “Fathers H1 shall not be put to death [fn]for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death [fn]for their fathers; H1 everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:3 - “You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare this day to the LORD [fn]my God that I have entered the land which the LORD swore to our fathers H1 to give us.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, ‘My father H1 was a [fn]wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and [fn]sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:7 - ‘Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, H1 and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:15 - ‘Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.’ H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, H1 [fn]promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:16 - ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father H1 or mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:20 - ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s H1 wife, because he has uncovered his father’s H1 skirt.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:22 - ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father H1 or of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - “The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and in the [fn]offspring of your beast and in the [fn]produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers H1 to give you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36 - “The LORD will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers H1 have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64 - “Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers H1 have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:13 - in order that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, H1 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:25 - “Then men will say, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, H1 which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:5 - “The LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers H1 possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - “Then the LORD your God will [fn]prosper you abundantly in all the work of your hand, in the [fn]offspring of your [fn]body and in the [fn]offspring of your cattle and in the [fn]produce of your ground, for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, just as He rejoiced over your fathers; H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:20 - by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for [fn]this is your life and the length of your days, [fn]that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, H1 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:7 - Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers H1 to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; H1 and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - “For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, H1 and they have eaten and are satisfied and become [fn]prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:6 - “Do you thus repay the LORD,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is not He your Father H1 who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:7 - “Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
Ask your father, H1 and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:17 - “They sacrificed to demons who were not God,
To gods whom they have not known,
New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers H1 did not dread.

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