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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 54 times in 50 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - Then it happened that when she came to him, she incited him to ask her father H1 for a field. Then later, she dismounted from [fn]her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What [fn]do you want?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 -

Now the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers H1; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - All that generation also were gathered to their fathers H1; and another generation rose up after them who did not know the LORD, nor even the work which He had done for Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - and they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers H1, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed other gods from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them; so they provoked the LORD to anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they [fn]committed infidelity with other gods and bowed down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers H1 had walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do the same as their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But it came about, when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers H1, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their obstinate ways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has violated My covenant which I commanded their fathers H1, and has not listened to My voice,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it as their fathers H1 [fn]did, or not.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - They were left to test Israel by them, to find out if they would [fn]obey the commandments of the LORD, which He had commanded their fathers H1 [fn]through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - Then Gideon said to him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers H1 told us about, saying, ‘Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - But he said to Him, “O Lord, [fn]how am I to save Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s H1 house.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 -

Now on the same night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s H1 bull [fn]and a second bull seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father H1, and cut down the [fn]Asherah that is beside it;

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:27 - Then Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as the LORD had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father’s H1 household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:32 - And Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father H1 Joash, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:1 -

Now Abimelech the son of [fn]Jerubbaal went to Shechem, to his mother’s relatives, and spoke to them and to the entire family of the household of his mother’s father H1, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - Then he went to his father’s H1 house in Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, [fn]on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, because he hid himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - for my father H1 fought for you, and [fn]risked his life and saved you from the hand of Midian;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:18 - but in fact you have risen against my father’s H1 house today and have killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the [fn]leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - Then Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is Zebul not his governor? Serve the men of Hamor the father H1 of Shechem; but why should we serve him?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:56 - So God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father H1 in killing his seventy brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - Gilead’s wife bore him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s H1 house, for you are the son of another woman.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me from my father’s H1 house? So why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - So she said to him, “My father H1, you have [fn]given your word to the LORD; do to me just as [fn]you have said, since the LORD has brought you vengeance on your enemies, the sons of Ammon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - And she said to her father H1, “Let this thing be done for me; allow me two months, so that I may [fn]go to the mountains and weep because of my virginity, I and my friends.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And at the end of two months she returned to her father H1, who did to her [fn]what he had vowed; and she [fn]had no relations with a man. And it became a custom in Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:2 - So he came [fn]back and told his father H1 and [fn]mother, “I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; so now, get her for me as a wife.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father H1 and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all [fn]our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” Yet Samson said to his father H1, “Get her for me, because she is right [fn]for me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - However, his father H1 and mother did not know that this was of the LORD, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. And at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 -

Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father H1 and mother, and came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion came roaring toward him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:6 - And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, so that he tore it apart as one tears apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father H1 or mother what he had done.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - So he took out [fn]the honey on his [fn]hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father H1 and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 -

Then his father H1 went down to the woman; and Samson held a feast there, for the young men customarily did this.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 -

Then it came about on the [fn]fourth day that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, so that he will tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s H1 house with fire. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - So Samson’s wife wept in front of him and said, “You only hate me, and you do not love me; you have proposed a riddle to the sons of my people, and have not told it to me.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father H1 or mother; so should I tell you?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:19 -

Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men of them and took what they were wearing and gave the outfits of clothes to those who told the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s H1 house.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 -

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father H1 did not let him enter.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - Her father H1 said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is her younger sister not [fn]more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours [fn]instead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And some said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because [fn]he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father H1 to death with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and all his father’s H1 household came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father H1 Manoah. So he had judged Israel for twenty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:10 - Micah then said to him, “Stay with me and be a father H1 and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a supply of clothing, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:19 - And they said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father H1 and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:29 - And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father H1 who was born to Israel; however, the name of the city was previously Laish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:2 - But his concubine [fn]found him repugnant, and she left him and went to her father’s H1 house in Bethlehem in Judah, and remained there for a period of four months.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Then her husband set out and went after her to speak [fn]gently to her in order to bring her back, [fn]taking with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s H1 house, and when the girl’s father H1 saw him, he was glad to meet him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:4 - His father-in-law, the girl’s father H1, prevailed upon him, and he remained with him for three days. So they ate and drank and stayed there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and he [fn]prepared to go; but the girl’s father H1 said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen [fn]yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward you may go.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6 - So both of them sat down and ate and drank together; and the girl’s father H1 said to the man, “Please [fn]be so kind as to spend the night, and let your heart be cheerful.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - Now on the fifth day he got up to go early in the morning, but the girl’s father H1 said, “Please strengthen [fn]yourself, and wait until [fn]late afternoon”; so both of them ate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - When the man got up to go, along with his concubine and servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father H1, said to him, “Behold now, the day has drawn [fn]to a close; please spend the night. Behold, the day is [fn]coming to an end; spend the night here so that your heart may be cheerful. Then tomorrow you may arise early for your journey and go [fn]home.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - “And when their fathers H1 or their brothers come to complain to us, we shall say to them, ‘[fn]Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin [fn]a wife in battle, [fn]nor did you give them to them, [fn]otherwise you would now be guilty.’”
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