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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 5 / 22 (Lev 20:9–Num 11:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 - For every one that curseth his father H1 or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father H1 or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 - And the man that lieth with his father's H1 wife hath uncovered his father's H1 nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 - And if a man shall take his sister, his father's H1 daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's H1 sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, H1 and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:9 - And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: H1 she shall be burnt with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, H1 or for his mother;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's H1 house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's H1 meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers H1 shall he return.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers H1 shall they pine away with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 - If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, H1 with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:4 - And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 - These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, H1 heads of thousands in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 - Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 - Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 - Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 - Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 - Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 - Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 - Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, H1 from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers H1 were not numbered among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2 - Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's H1 house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: H1 all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34 - And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, H1 by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 - And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:24 - And the chief of the house of the father H1 of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:30 - And the chief of the house of the father H1 of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the chief of the house of the father H1 of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:2 - Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:22 - Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, H1 by their families;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:29 - As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:34 - And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:38 - And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:40 - Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, H1 were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:42 - And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 - All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - He shall not make himself unclean for his father, H1 or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:2 - That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, H1 who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? H1

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