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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 4 / 22 (Gen 48:21–Lev 19:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers H1.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:2 -

“Assemble together and hear, O sons of Jacob;

And listen to Israel your father H1.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:4 -

[fn]Uncontrolled as water, you shall not have preeminence,

Because you went up to your father’s H1 bed;

Then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8 -

“Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you;

Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;

Your father’s H1 sons shall bow down to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:25 -

From the God of your father H1 who helps you,

And [fn]by the [fn]Almighty who blesses you

With blessings of heaven above,

Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,

Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26 -

“The blessings of your father H1

Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors

Up to the [fn]utmost bound of the everlasting hills;

May they be on the head of Joseph,

And on the top of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:28 -

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father H1 spoke to them. So he blessed them. He blessed them, every one [fn]with the blessing appropriate to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers H1 in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:1 -

Then Joseph fell on his father’s H1 face and wept over him and kissed him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:2 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father H1. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father H1 made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” So now, please let me go up and bury my father H1; then I will return.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father H1, as he made you swear.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:7 -

So Joseph went up to bury his father H1, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:8 - and all the household of Joseph and his brothers and his father’s H1 household; they left only their little ones and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - And they came to the [fn]threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and [fn]immense lamentation; and he [fn]observed seven days of mourning for his father H1.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:14 - After he had buried his father H1, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all who had gone up with him to bury his father H1.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:15 -

Then Joseph’s brothers saw that their father H1 was dead, and they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and returns back to us all the evil which we dealt against him!”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:16 - So they [fn]sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father H1 commanded before he died, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:17 - ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph, “Please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they dealt evil against you.”’ So now, please forgive the transgression of the slaves of the God of your father H1.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:22 -

Now Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father’s H1 household, and Joseph lived 110 years.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:16 - Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to give water to their father’s H1 flock to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - Then they came to Reuel their father H1, and he said, “Why have you come back so soon today?”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:6 - He said also, “I am the God of your father H1, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:13 -

Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am about to come to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers H1 has sent me to you.’ And they will say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:15 - And God furthermore said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers H1, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name from generation to generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - “Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers H1, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “[fn]I indeed care about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:5 - “that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers H1, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:14 -

These are the heads of their fathers’ H1 households.

The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn:

Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:25 -

And Aaron’s son Eleazar took one of the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ H1 households of the Levites according to their families.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - ‘Then your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians shall be filled, something which neither your fathers H1 nor your grandfathers H1 have seen, from the day that they [fn]came upon the earth until this day.’” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:3 - “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a [fn]lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ H1 households, a [fn]lamb for [fn]each household.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - “And it shall be when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers H1 to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall [fn]do this service in this month.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 -

“And it will be when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers H1, and gives it to you,

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:2 -

[fn]Yah is my strength and song,

And He has become my salvation;

This is my God, and I will praise Him;

My father’s H1 God, and I will extol Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:4 - [fn]And the other was named [fn]Eliezer, for he said, “The God of my father H1 was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:5 -

“You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers H1 on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:12 -

“Honor your father H1 and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:15 -

“And he who strikes his father H1 or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:17 -

“And he who curses his father H1 or his mother shall surely be put to death.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:17 - “If her father H1 absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall [fn]pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:7 - who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers H1 on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:15 - and you shall anoint them even as you have anointed their father H1, that they may minister as priests to Me; and their anointing will be for them for a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:32 - “So the priest who is anointed and [fn]ordained to minister as a priest in his father’s H1 place shall make atonement: he shall thus put on the linen garments, the holy garments,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:7 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father H1, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:8 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s H1 wife; it is your father’s H1 nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:9 - ‘The nakedness of your sister, either your father’s H1 daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether born at home or born outside, their nakedness you shall not uncover.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:11 - ‘The nakedness of your father’s H1 wife’s daughter, [fn]born to your father H1, she is your sister; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:12 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s H1 sister; she is your father’s H1 blood relative.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:14 - ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s H1 brother; you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:3 - ‘Every one of you shall fear his mother and his father H1, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God.

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