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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 106 times in 87 verses in '1Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ch 2:17–1Ch 12:17)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:17 -

Abigail bore Amasa, and the father H1 of Amasa was [fn]Jether the Ishmaelite.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:21 -

Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father H1 of Gilead, whom he took as a wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:23 -

But Geshur and Aram took [fn]Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father H1 of Gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:24 -

After the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur the father H1 of Tekoa.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:42 -

Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father H1 of Ziph; and [fn]his son was Mareshah, the father H1 of Hebron.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:44 -

Shema became the father of Raham, the father H1 of Jorkeam;

and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:45 -

The son of Shammai was Maon,

and Maon was the father H1 of Bethzur.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:49 -

She also bore Shaaph the father H1 of Madmannah, Sheva the father H1 of Machbena and the father H1 of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:50 -

These were the sons of Caleb.

The [fn]sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, were Shobal the father H1 of Kiriath-jearim,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:51 -

Salma the father H1 of Bethlehem and Hareph the father H1 of Beth-gader.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:52 -

Shobal the father H1 of Kiriath-jearim had sons:

Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 2:55 -

The families of scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father H1 of the house of Rechab.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:3 -

These were the [fn]sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:4 -

Penuel was the father H1 of Gedor, and Ezer the father H1 of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father H1 of Bethlehem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:5 -

Ashhur, the father H1 of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:11 -

Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father H1 of Eshton.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:12 -

Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father H1 of [fn]Ir-nahash.

These are the men of Recah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:14 -

Meonothai became the father of Ophrah,

and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father H1 of [fn]Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:17 -

The [fn]sons of Ezrah were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. ([fn]And these are the sons of Bithia the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took) and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father H1 of Eshtemoa.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:18 -

His Jewish wife bore Jered the father H1 of Gedor, and Heber the father H1 of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father H1 of Zanoah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:19 -

The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the [fn]fathers H1 of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:21 -

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father H1 of Lecah and Laadah the father H1 of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the fine linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:38 -

these, who came into the record by name, were leaders in their families; and their fathers’ H1 houses increased greatly.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:1 -

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he profaned his father’s H1 bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; so that he is not recorded in the genealogy according to the birthright.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:13 - Their [fn]relatives of their fathers’ H1 households were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:15 -

Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was head of their fathers’ H1 households.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:24 - These were the heads of their fathers’ H1 households, even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, men of renown, heads of their fathers’ H1 households.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:25 -

But they acted unfaithfully against the God of their fathers H1 and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:19 -

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi.

And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ H1 households.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 -

The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ H1 households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 -

With them by their generations according to their fathers’ H1 households were 36,000 [fn]troops of the army for war, for they had many wives and sons.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:7 -

The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five. They were heads of fathers’ H1 households, mighty men of valor, and were 22,034 recorded by genealogy.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:9 -

They were recorded by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ H1 households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:11 -

All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ H1 households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who went out with the army to war.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:14 -

The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father H1 of Gilead.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:22 - And their father H1 Ephraim mourned many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:31 -

The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father H1 of Birzaith.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 -

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ H1 houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them recorded by genealogy for the army in war was 26,000 men.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:6 -

These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers’ H1 households of the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away into exile to Manahath,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:10 -

Jeuz, Sachia, Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ H1 households.

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and Beriah and Shema, who were heads of fathers’ H1 households of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who made the inhabitants of Gath flee;

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These were heads of the fathers’ H1 households according to their generations, the heads [fn]who lived in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 8:29 -

Now in Gibeon, Jeiel the father H1 of Gibeon lived, and his wife’s name was Maacah;

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:9 -

and their relatives according to their generations, 956.

All these were heads of fathers’ H1 households according to their fathers’ H1 houses.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 -

and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ H1 households, 1,760 mighty men of valor for the work of the service of the house of God.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:19 -

Shallum the son of Kore, the son of [fn]Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s H1 house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers H1 had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entrance.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33 -

Now these are the singers, heads of fathers’ H1 households of the Levites, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were over them in their work day and night.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:34 - These were heads of fathers’ H1 households of the Levites according to their generations, the heads [fn]who lived in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:35 -

Now in Gibeon, Jeiel the father H1 of Gibeon lived, and his wife’s name was Maacah,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:17 - David went out before them, and he answered and said to them, “If you come peacefully to me to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no violence in my hands, may the God of our fathers H1 look on it and reprove.”

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