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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 13 / 22 (2Ki 13:14–1Ch 2:45)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 - Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, H1 my father, H1 the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:25 - And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father H1 by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:3 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: H1 he did according to all things as Joash his father H1 did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:5 - And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers H1 shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; H1 but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:16 - And Jehoash slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:20 - And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers H1 in the city of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:21 - And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father H1 Amaziah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:22 - He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:29 - And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, H1 even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:3 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father H1 Amaziah had done;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:7 - So Azariah slept with his fathers; H1 and they buried him with his fathers H1 in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:9 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers H1 had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:22 - And Menahem slept with his fathers; H1 and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:34 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father H1 Uzziah had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:38 - And Jotham slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David his father: H1 and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. H1
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:20 - And Ahaz slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, H1 and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:14 - Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, H1 that did not believe in the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, H1 and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:41 - So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, H1 so do they unto this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:3 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father H1 did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:12 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers H1 have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:5 - Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, H1 I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers H1 have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:21 - And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: H1 and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father H1 had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; H1 only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 - Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers H1 came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:18 - And Manasseh slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:20 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father H1 Manasseh did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - And he walked in all the way that his father H1 walked in, and served the idols that his father H1 served, and worshipped them:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:22 - And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, H1 and walked not in the way of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:2 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, H1 and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:13 - Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers H1 have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:20 - Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, H1 and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:30 - And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's H1 stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:32 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers H1 had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:34 - And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, H1 and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:37 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers H1 had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:6 - So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: H1 and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:9 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father H1 had done.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:17 - And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father H1 of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:21 - And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father H1 of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 - And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father H1 of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:24 - And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father H1 of Tekoa.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:42 - Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father H1 of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father H1 of Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:44 - And Shema begat Raham, the father H1 of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:45 - And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father H1 of Bethzur.

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