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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 12 / 22 (1Ki 12:6–2Ki 13:13)

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 -

And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had [fn]served his father H1 Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - He said to them, “What advice do you give, so that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father H1 put on us’?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “This is what you should say to this people who spoke to you, saying: ‘Your father H1 made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ You should speak this way to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s H1 waist!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:11 - ‘Now then, my father H1 loaded you with a heavy yoke; yet I will add to your yoke. My father H1 disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with [fn]scorpions!’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:14 - and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father H1 made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father H1 disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with [fn]scorpions!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 -

Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his [fn]sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they reported to their father H1.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:12 - And their father H1 said to them, “[fn]Which way did he go?” Now his sons [fn]had seen the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - but have returned and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to you, “You are not to eat bread nor drink water”; your dead body will not come to the grave of your fathers H1.’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 -

“For the LORD will strike Israel, just as a reed sways in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers H1, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their [fn]Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:20 - And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:22 - And the people of Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they [fn]committed, more than all that their fathers H1 had done.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:31 - And Rehoboam [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David; and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And his son Abijam became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:3 - He walked in all the sins of his father H1 which he had committed before him; and his heart was not [fn]wholly devoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father H1 David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:8 - And Abijam [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Asa became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:11 - Now Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, like his father H1 David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers H1 had made.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:15 - And he brought into the house of the LORD the [fn]holy gifts of his father H1 and his own [fn]holy gifts: silver, gold, and valuable utensils.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:19 - Let’s make a treaty between [fn]you and me, as there was between my father H1 and your father H1. Behold, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold; go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:24 - And Asa [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of his father H1 David; and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:26 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father H1 and in his sin into which he misled Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:6 - And Baasha [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - And Omri [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried in Samaria; and his son Ahab became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - He said, “I have not brought disaster to Israel, but you and your father’s H1 house have, because you have abandoned the commandments of the LORD and you have followed the Baals.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked for himself to die, and said, “Enough! Now, LORD, take my [fn]life, for I am no better than my fathers H1.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - Then he left the oxen behind and ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father H1 and my mother, then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back, for [fn]what have I done to you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities which my father H1 took from your father H1 I will restore, and you can make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father H1 made in Samaria.” Ahab said, “And I will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:3 - But Naboth said to Ahab, “The LORD forbid me that I would give you the inheritance of my fathers H1!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:4 - So Ahab entered his house sullen and furious because of the [fn]answer that Naboth the Jezreelite had given to him, since he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers H1.” And he lay down on his bed and turned his face away, and ate no [fn]food.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:40 - So Ahab [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:43 - He walked [fn]entirely in the way of his father H1 Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:46 - And the remnant of the cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father H1 Asa, he eliminated from the land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:50 - And Jehoshaphat [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of his father H1 David, and his son Jehoram became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:52 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father H1 and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who misled Israel into sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:53 - So he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father H1 had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - And Elisha was watching it and he was crying out, “My father H1, my father H1, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he did not see [fn]Elijah again. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:2 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father H1 and his mother; for he removed the memorial stone of Baal which his father H1 had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 -

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel, “[fn]What business do you have with me? Go to your father’s H1 prophets and your mother’s prophets.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:18 -

When the child was grown, the day came that he went out to his father H1, to the reapers.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - And he said to his father H1, “My head, my head!” And his father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - Then his servants approached and spoke to him, [fn]saying, “My father H1, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - Then the king of Israel when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father H1, shall I [fn]kill them? Shall I [fn]kill them?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:24 - So Joram [fn]lay down with his fathers H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David; and his son Ahaziah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the [fn]property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when [fn]you and I were riding together after his father H1 Ahab, that the LORD brought this pronouncement against him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:28 - Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his grave with his fathers H1 in the city of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3 - select the best and most capable of your master’s sons and seat him on his father’s H1 throne, and fight for your master’s house.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:35 - And Jehu [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and they buried him in Samaria. And his son Jehoahaz became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:18 - So Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred offerings that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers H1, kings of Judah, had consecrated, and his own sacred offerings, and all the gold that was found among the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then he withdrew from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:21 - For Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and he died; and they buried him with his fathers H1 in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:9 - And Jehoahaz [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and they buried him in Samaria; and his son Joash became king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:13 - So Joash [fn]lay down with his fathers H1, and Jeroboam sat on his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

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