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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 46:31 — Numbers 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 WITH Nöib., 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

H1

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Strong's Number H1 matches the Hebrew אָב ('āḇ),
which occurs 1,213 times in 1,060 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 22 (Gen 28:7–Gen 42:36)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob had listened to his father H1 and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing in the [fn]sight of his father H1 Isaac;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - And behold, Yahweh stood [fn]above it and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of your father H1 Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:21 - and I return to my father’s H1 house in peace, then Yahweh will be my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:9 -

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s H1 sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:12 - And Jacob told Rachel that he was a [fn]relative of her father H1 and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father H1.

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Then [fn]Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father H1, and from what belonged to our father H1 he has made all this [fn]wealth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers H1 and to your kin, and I will be with you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - and he said to them, “I see your father’s H1 face, that it is not friendly toward me as formerly, but the God of my father H1 has been with me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:6 - “You also know that I have served your father H1 with all my power.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:7 - “Yet your father H1 has cheated me and changed my wages ten times; however, God did not allow him to harm me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:9 - “Thus God has delivered your father’s H1 livestock and given them to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:14 - Then Rachel and Leah said to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s H1 house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:16 - “Surely all the riches which God has delivered over to us from our father H1 belong to us and our children; now then, do whatever God has said to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - and he drove away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had accumulated, his acquired livestock which he had accumulated in Paddan-aram, in order to go to the land of Canaan to his father H1 Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban had gone to shear his flock. Then Rachel stole the [fn]household idols that were her father’s H1.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - “It is in my hand to do evil against you, but the God of your father H1 spoke to me last night, saying, ‘[fn]Beware of speaking either good or evil to Jacob.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:30 - “So now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s H1 house; but why did you steal my gods?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father H1, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the [fn]household idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - “If the God of my father H1, the God of Abraham, and the dread of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered the decision last night.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:53 - “The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father H1, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the dread of his father H1 Isaac.

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And Jacob said, “O God of my father H1 Abraham and God of my father H1 Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your kin, and I will [fn]prosper you,’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - Then he bought a portion of a field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father H1, for one hundred [fn]qesitah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - So Shechem spoke to his father H1 Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:6 - Then Hamor the father H1 of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - And Shechem also said to her father H1 and to her brothers, “If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me.

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But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father H1 Hamor with deceit, and thus they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:19 - So the young man did not delay to do the thing because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more honored than all the household of his father H1.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:18 - Now it happened as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him [fn]Ben-oni; but his father H1 called him [fn]Benjamin.

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Now it happened while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s H1 concubine, and Israel heard of it.

And there were twelve sons of Jacob—

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And Jacob came to his father H1 Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

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These then are the generations of Esau the father H1 of [fn]the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:24 - These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father H1 Zibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43 - chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father H1 of [fn]the Edomites), according to their places of habitation in the land of their possession.

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Now Jacob lived in the land [fn]where his father H1 had sojourned, in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s H1 wives. And Joseph brought back an evil report about them to their father H1.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:4 - And his brothers saw that their father H1 loved him more than all his brothers, and so they hated him and could not speak to him in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - And he recounted it to his father H1 and to his brothers; and his father H1 rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have [fn]had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers really come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:11 - And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father H1 kept the saying in mind.

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Then his brothers went to pasture their father’s H1 flock in Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not put forth your hands against him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands to return him to his father H1.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:32 - and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father H1 and said, “We found this; please recognize it—whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:35 - Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father H1 wept for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s H1 house until my son Shelah grows up”; for he [fn]thought, “I am afraid lest he also die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s H1 house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:51 - And Joseph named the firstborn [fn]Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s H1 household.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - So they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers in all, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is with our father H1 today, and one is no more.”

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Then they came to their father H1 Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - ‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father H1; one is no more, and the youngest is with our father H1 today in the land of Canaan.’

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Now it happened that they were emptying their sacks, and behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and they and their father H1 saw their bundles of money, and they feared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:36 - And their father H1 Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”

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