H1 Definition

Strong's number
H1
Lemma
אָב
Transliteration
ʼâb
Pronunciation
awb
Strong's definition
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'. a primitive word;

1056 instances of the word אָב ʼâb (H1)


  • 2 Chronicles 34:33 - they departed And Josiah all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children in Israel even to serve and made all that were present in Israel even to serve the LORD the God And all his days they departed not from following the LORD the God of their fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 35:4 - And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers after your courses according to the writing of David king of Israel and according to the writing of Solomon his son

  • 2 Chronicles 35:5 - And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the families of your brethren the people and after the division of the families of the families of the Levites

  • Jeremiah 35:6 - But they said We will drink no wine for Jonadab neither ye nor your sons of Rechab our father commanded But they said We will drink no wine neither ye nor your sons for ever

  • Jeremiah 35:8 - Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab our sons of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us to drink no wine all our days we our wives our sons nor our daughters

  • Jeremiah 35:10 - But we have dwelt in tents and have obeyed and done commanded according to all that Jonadab our father

  • 2 Chronicles 35:12 - And they removed the burnt offerings that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people to offer unto the LORD as it is written in the book of Moses And so did they with the oxen

  • Jeremiah 35:14 - are performed The words of Jonadab his sons of Rechab that he commanded his sons not to drink wine not to drink for unto this day but ye hearkened commandment their father's and speaking unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkened

  • Jeremiah 35:15 - I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets rising up early I have sent them saying Return ye now every man way from his evil and amend your doings not after gods other to serve them and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers but ye have not inclined your ear nor hearkened

  • Jeremiah 35:16 - have performed Because the sons of Jonadab Because the sons of Rechab the commandment of their father which he commanded them but this people hath not hearkened

  • Genesis 35:18 - was in departing And it came to pass as her soul for she died called his name Benoni but his father called him Benjamin

  • Jeremiah 35:18 - unto the house of the Rechabites Thus saith And Jeremiah Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Because ye have obeyed all his precepts of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done according unto all that he hath commanded

  • Genesis 35:22 - dwelt And it came to pass when Israel in that land that Reuben and lay with Bilhah concubine his father's heard And it came to pass when Israel it Now the sons of Jacob were twelve

  • 2 Chronicles 35:24 - therefore took His servants him out of that chariot and put chariot him in the second and Jerusalem and he died and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah

  • Genesis 35:27 - came And Jacob and Isaac his father unto Mamre unto the city of Arbah which is Hebron sojourned where Abraham and Isaac

  • 2 Chronicles 36:1 - took Then the people of the land Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem

  • Numbers 36:1 - came near And the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead of the children of Machir of the children of Manasseh of the families of the children of Joseph and spake and before Moses and before the princes And the chief fathers of the children of Israel

  • Numbers 36:3 - to any of the children of the other tribes of the children of Israel And if they be married be taken from the inheritance from the inheritance of our fathers and shall be put from the inheritance of the tribe from the lot from the inheritance be taken

  • Numbers 36:4 - And when the jubile of the children of Israel be put from the inheritance from the inheritance of the tribe from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers be taken away from the inheritance

  • Numbers 36:6 - This is the thing doth command which the LORD concerning the daughters of Zelophehad saying best to whom they think Let them marry only to the family of the tribe of their father Let them marry

  • Numbers 36:7 - remove So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel from tribe from tribe for every one So shall not the inheritance from tribe of his fathers shall keep of the children of Israel

  • Numbers 36:8 - And every daughter may enjoy an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel unto one of the family in any tribe of her father shall be wife may enjoy of the children of Israel every man an inheritance of her father

  • Genesis 36:9 - And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir

  • Numbers 36:12 - into the families of the sons of Manasseh of the sons of Joseph And they were married and their inheritance remained in the tribe into the families of their father

  • 2 Chronicles 36:15 - and sending And the LORD God of their fathers to them by his messengers rising up betimes and sending because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling

  • Genesis 36:24 - And these are the children of Zibeon both Ajah and Anah and Anah that found the mules in the wilderness as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father

  • Ezekiel 36:28 - And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people and I will be your God

  • Genesis 36:43 - Duke Magdiel Duke Iram Duke of Edom according to their habitations in the land of their possession he is Esau the father of Edom

  • Genesis 37:1 - dwelt And Jacob in the land was a stranger wherein his father in the land of Canaan

  • Genesis 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob Joseph and with the sons being seventeen years was feeding with his brethren the flock and the lad and with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah wives his father's brought Joseph report their evil his father's

  • Genesis 37:4 - saw And when his brethren loved that their father And when his brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably

  • Genesis 37:10 - And he told and his father and thy brethren rebuked and his father him and said unto him What is this dream that thou hast dreamed come come Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth

  • Genesis 37:11 - envied And his brethren him but his father observed the saying

  • Genesis 37:12 - And his brethren to feed flock their father's in Shechem

  • Isaiah 37:12 - delivered Have the gods of the nations have destroyed them which my fathers as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Telassar

  • Genesis 37:22 - said And Reuben unto them Shed no blood but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness him out of their hands and lay upon him that he might rid him out of their hands again him to his father

  • Ezekiel 37:25 - And they shall dwell in the land that I have given and my servant unto Jacob And they shall dwell wherein your fathers And they shall dwell and their children's and their children's and their children's for ever David and my servant shall be their prince ever

  • Genesis 37:32 - And they sent coat of many colours and they brought it to their father and said This have we found know coat now whether it be thy son's

  • Genesis 37:35 - rose up And all his sons and all his daughters to be comforted him but he refused to be comforted and he said For I will go down And all his sons mourning into the grave wept Thus his father

  • Isaiah 38:5 - Go Thus saith to Hezekiah Thus saith the LORD the God of David thy father I have heard thy prayer I have seen thy tears behold I will add unto thy days fifteen years

  • Genesis 38:11 - Then said Judah did And Tamar his daughter in law Remain a widow house at thy father's be grown till Shelah my son Then said Lest peradventure he die also as his brethren did And Tamar Remain house at thy father's

  • Isaiah 38:19 - The living The living he shall praise thee as I do this day the father to the children shall make known thy truth

  • Job 38:28 - Hath the rain a father or who hath begotten the drops of dew

  • Isaiah 39:6 - Behold the days come shall be carried that all that is in thine house have laid up in store and that which thy fathers Behold the days to Babylon shall be left nothing saith the LORD

  • Psalms 39:12 - Hear my prayer O LORD unto my cry and give ear at my tears hold not thy peace for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers

  • Exodus 40:15 - And thou shalt anoint And thou shalt anoint their father that they may minister unto me in the priest's office for their anointing priesthood shall surely be an everlasting throughout their generations

  • Genesis 41:51 - called And Joseph the name of the firstborn Manasseh said he hath made me forget For God all my toil house and all my father's

  • Genesis 42:13 - And they said are twelve Thy servants brethren the sons man and one in the land of Canaan and behold the youngest with our father is this day and one

  • Job 42:15 - found were no women so fair as the daughters of Job And in all the land gave and their father them inheritance among their brethren

  • Genesis 42:29 - And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan and told him all that befell unto them saying

  • Genesis 42:32 - We be twelve brethren sons of our father one is not and the youngest is this day of our father in the land of Canaan

  • Genesis 42:35 - And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks that behold every man's bundle of money their sacks saw bundle of money and when both they and their father they were afraid

  • Genesis 42:36 - said And Jacob their father unto them Me have ye bereaved of my children Joseph is not and Simeon Benjamin is not and ye will take

  • Genesis 42:37 - saying And Reuben unto his father saying my two sons Slay if I bring him not to thee deliver him into my hand and I will bring him to thee again

  • Genesis 43:2 - And it came to pass when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt said their father unto them Go again buy us a little food

  • Genesis 43:7 - And they said asked asked The man of our state and of our kindred And they said Is your father yet alive have ye another brother and we told him according to the tenor of these words could we certainly could we certainly And they said Bring another brother

  • Genesis 43:8 - said And Judah unto Israel his father Send the lad with me and we will arise that we may live and not die both we and thou and also our little ones

  • Genesis 43:11 - said Israel And their father unto them If it must be so now do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry down a present a little balm a little honey spices and myrrh nuts and almonds

  • Genesis 43:23 - And he said Peace be to you fear and the God and the God of your father hath given you treasure in your sacks your money I had And he brought Simeon

  • Genesis 43:27 - And he asked them of their welfare and said them of their welfare Is your father the old man and said Is he yet alive

  • Isaiah 43:27 - father Thy first hath sinned and thy teachers have transgressed

  • Genesis 43:28 - And they answered is in good health Thy servant our father he is yet alive And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance

  • Psalms 44:1 - O God with our ears We have heard our fathers have told us what work thou didst in the times in the times of old

  • Jeremiah 44:3 - Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger to burn incense and to serve gods other whom they knew not neither they ye nor your fathers

  • Jeremiah 44:9 - Have ye forgotten and the wickedness of your fathers and the wickedness of the kings of Judah and the wickedness of their wives and the wickedness and the wickedness of their wives which they have committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem

  • Jeremiah 44:10 - They are not humbled even unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law nor in my statutes that I set before before your fathers

  • Genesis 44:17 - And he said God forbid that I should do so but the man is found the cup in whose hand he shall be my servant and as for you get you up in peace unto your father

  • Jeremiah 44:17 - But we will certainly But we will certainly whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings But we will certainly we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty of victuals and were well no evil and saw

  • Genesis 44:19 - My lord asked his servants saying Have ye a father or a brother

  • Genesis 44:20 - And we said unto my lord We have a father an old man and a child of his old age a little one and his brother is dead and he alone is left of his mother a father loveth

  • Jeremiah 44:21 - that ye burned The incense in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ye and your fathers your kings and your princes and the people of the land remember did not the LORD them and came it not into his mind

  • Genesis 44:22 - And we said unto my lord cannot The lad for if he should leave his father for if he should leave his father his father would die

  • Genesis 44:24 - And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father we told him the words of my lord

  • Ezekiel 44:25 - at no dead person And they shall come they may defile themselves but for father or for mother or for son or for daughter for brother or for sister that hath had no husband they may defile

  • Genesis 44:25 - said And our father Go again and buy us a little food

  • Genesis 44:27 - said And thy servant my father unto us Ye know me two bare that my wife

  • Genesis 44:30 - Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father and the lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up be not with us seeing that his life

  • Genesis 44:31 - It shall come to pass when he seeth that the lad is not with us that he will die shall bring down and thy servants the gray hairs and thy servants our father with sorrow to the grave

  • Genesis 44:32 - For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father saying If I bring him not unto thee then I shall bear the blame my father for ever

  • Genesis 44:34 - For how shall I go up my father and the lad be not with me lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father

  • Genesis 45:3 - said And Joseph And his brethren And Joseph doth my father yet live could And his brethren not answer him for they were troubled at his presence

  • Genesis 45:8 - So now it was not you that sent me hither but God and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt

  • Genesis 45:9 - Haste ye and go up to my father and say and say thy son Joseph hath made God me lord of all Egypt come down unto me tarry

  • Isaiah 45:10 - Woe unto him that saith unto his father What begettest thou or to the woman What hast thou brought forth

  • Psalms 45:10 - Hearken O daughter and consider and incline thine ear forget also thine own people house and thy father's

  • Genesis 45:13 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that ye have seen and ye shall haste and bring down my father

  • Psalms 45:16 - Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth

  • Genesis 45:18 - And take your father and your households and come unto me and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt and ye shall eat the fat of the land

  • Genesis 45:19 - Now thou art commanded this do ye take out of the land of Egypt you wagons for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come

  • Genesis 45:23 - And to his father he sent after this and ten she asses laden with the good things of Egypt and ten asses laden with corn and bread and meat And to his father by the way

  • Genesis 45:25 - And they went up out of Egypt and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father

  • Genesis 45:27 - And they told him all the words of Joseph And they told unto them and when he saw the wagons had sent of Joseph to carry revived him the spirit of Jacob their father

  • Genesis 46:1 - took his journey And Israel with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac

  • Genesis 46:3 - And he said I am God the God of thy father fear not to go down into Egypt nation of thee a great for I will there make

  • Genesis 46:5 - rose up And Jacob from Beersheba carried and the sons of Israel And Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons had sent which Pharaoh carried

  • Genesis 46:29 - made ready And Joseph his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen and presented himself unto him and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while

  • Genesis 46:31 - and say And Joseph unto him My brethren house and my father's I will go up and shew Pharaoh and say unto him My brethren house and my father's which were in the land of Canaan are come

  • Genesis 46:34 - That ye shall say trade hath been about cattle Thy servants from our youth even until now both we and also our fathers that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen is an abomination unto the Egyptians for every shepherd

  • Genesis 47:1 - and all that they have are come out Then Joseph and told Pharaoh and said My father and my brethren and their flocks and their herds and all that they have are come out and behold they are in the land of Canaan and behold they are in the land of Goshen

  • Genesis 47:3 - And they said And Pharaoh unto his brethren What is your occupation And they said And Pharaoh are shepherds Thy servants both we and also our fathers