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)


  • 1 Kings 3:3 - loved And Solomon the LORD in the statutes of David his father in high places only he sacrificed and burnt incense

  • Jeremiah 3:4 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me My father thou art the guide of my youth

  • Judges 3:4 - And they were to prove Israel by them to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses

  • Numbers 3:4 - died And Nadab and Abihu before the LORD when they offered fire strange before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai and they had no children ministered in the priest's office and Eleazar and Ithamar before of Aaron their father

  • Exodus 3:6 - Moreover he said I am the God of thy father I am the God of Abraham I am the God of Isaac I am the God of Jacob hid And Moses his face for he was afraid to look I am the God

  • 1 Kings 3:6 - said And Solomon Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father kindness for him this great according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee and thou hast kept kindness for him this great that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day

  • Isaiah 3:6 - shall take hold When a man of his brother of the house of his father saying Thou hast clothing be thou our ruler and let this ruin be under thy hand

  • 1 Kings 3:7 - And now O LORD my God king thou hast made thy servant instead of David my father child and I am but a little I know not how to go out or come in

  • 2 Samuel 3:7 - And Saul concubine whose name was Rizpah the daughter of Aiah and Ishbosheth said to Abner Wherefore hast thou gone in concubine unto my father's

  • Malachi 3:7 - Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances and have not kept Wherein shall we return Wherein shall we return But ye said the LORD of hosts But ye said Wherein shall we return

  • 2 Samuel 3:8 - wroth Then was Abner very for the words of Ishbosheth and said head Am I a dog's which against Judah me to day do shew kindness unto the house of Saul thy father to his brethren and to his friends and have not delivered thee into the hand of David that thou chargest with a fault concerning this woman me to day

  • Ezra 3:12 - But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers who were ancient men that had seen house the first was laid house before their eyes wept voice with a loud But many shouted for joy aloud voice

  • Proverbs 3:12 - loveth For whom the LORD he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth

  • Exodus 3:13 - and shall say And Moses unto God Behold when I come unto the children of Israel and shall say unto God of your fathers hath sent and shall say to me What is his name and shall say

  • 2 Kings 3:13 - said And Elisha And the king of Israel and to the prophets of thy father and to the prophets of thy mother said And the king of Israel hath called unto him Nay for the LORD these three And the king to deliver them into the hand of Moab

  • 1 Kings 3:14 - did walk in my ways to keep my statutes and my commandments did walk David as thy father then I will lengthen thy days

  • Exodus 3:15 - Thus shalt thou say moreover And God unto Moses Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel The LORD And God of your fathers And God of Abraham And God of Isaac And God of Jacob hath sent me unto you this is my name for ever and this is my memorial generations generations

  • Numbers 3:15 - Number old of Levi after the house of their fathers by their families every male old from a month and upward Number

  • Exodus 3:16 - and gather the elders of Israel and say unto them The LORD God of your fathers appeared God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob and say I have surely I have surely you and seen that which is done to you in Egypt

  • Jeremiah 3:18 - In those days the house of Judah the house of Israel and they shall come together out of the land of the north out of the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers

  • Jeremiah 3:19 - But I said How shall I put thee among the children and give land thee a pleasant heritage a goodly of the hosts of nations But I said me My father Thou shalt call Thou shalt call from me and shalt not turn away

  • Numbers 3:20 - And the sons of Merari by their families Mahli and Mushi These are by their families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers

  • Jeremiah 3:24 - For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth their flocks and their herds their sons and their daughters

  • Numbers 3:24 - And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael

  • Jeremiah 3:25 - We lie down in our shame covereth and our confusion against the LORD our God us for we have sinned we and our fathers from our youth even unto this day and have not obeyed the voice against the LORD our God

  • 2 Samuel 3:29 - Let it rest on the head of Joab from the house and on all his father's and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue or that is a leper or that leaneth on a staff or that falleth on the sword or that lacketh bread

  • Numbers 3:30 - And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel

  • Numbers 3:35 - And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail on the side of the tabernacle these shall pitch northward

  • Deuteronomy 4:1 - O Israel Now therefore hearken unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you for to do them that ye may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth

  • Proverbs 4:1 - Hear ye children the instruction of a father and attend to know understanding

  • Ezra 4:2 - Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the chief of the fathers and said unto them Let us build with you for we seek your God as ye do and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur which brought us up hither

  • Numbers 4:2 - Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among of the sons of Levi after their families by the house of their fathers

  • Ezra 4:3 - said But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house God but we ourselves together unto them Ye have nothing to do with us to build unto the LORD God of Israel hath commanded as king Cyrus as king of Persia

  • 1 Chronicles 4:3 - And these were of the father of Etam Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi

  • Proverbs 4:3 - son For I was my father's tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother

  • 1 Chronicles 4:4 - And Penuel the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah These are the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephratah the father of Bethlehem

  • Exodus 4:5 - That they may believe hath appeared that the LORD God of their fathers God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob

  • 1 Chronicles 4:5 - And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives Helah and Naarah

  • Malachi 4:6 - And he shall turn and the heart of the fathers of the children and the heart of the children of the fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse

  • Malachi 4:6 - And he shall turn and the heart of the fathers of the children and the heart of the children of the fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse

  • 1 Chronicles 4:11 - And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir which was the father of Eshton

  • 1 Chronicles 4:12 - And Eshton begat Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash of Rechah

  • Esther 4:14 - For if thou altogether For if thou altogether at this time then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews place from another house but thou and thy father's shall be destroyed and who knoweth at this time whether thou art come to the kingdom

  • 1 Chronicles 4:14 - And Meonothai begat Ophrah and Seraiah begat Joab the father of the valley of Charashim

  • 2 Chronicles 4:16 - The pots also and the shovels and the fleshhooks and all their instruments make did Huram his father to king Solomon for the house of the LORD brass of bright

  • 1 Chronicles 4:17 - And the sons of Ezra were Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon and she bare Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa

  • Ruth 4:17 - and they called And the women her neighbours his name saying born There is a son to Naomi and they called his name Obed he is the father of Jesse he is the father of David

  • 1 Chronicles 4:18 - And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor and Heber the father of Socho and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh took which Mered

  • 2 Kings 4:18 - was grown And when the child it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers

  • 1 Chronicles 4:19 - And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maachathite

  • 2 Kings 4:19 - And he said unto his father My head My head And he said to a lad Carry him to his mother

  • Genesis 4:20 - bare And Adah Jabal he was the father of such as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle

  • Genesis 4:21 - name And his brother's was Jubal he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ

  • 1 Chronicles 4:21 - The sons of Shelah The sons of Judah were Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen of the house of Ashbea

  • Joshua 4:21 - And he spake When your children of Israel And he spake shall ask When your children in time to come their fathers And he spake What mean these stones

  • Numbers 4:22 - Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon throughout the houses of their fathers by their families

  • Numbers 4:29 - As for the sons of Merari them after their families by the house of their fathers thou shalt number

  • Deuteronomy 4:31 - God is a merciful For the LORD thy God he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware

  • Numbers 4:34 - numbered And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation the sons of the Kohathites after their families and after the house of their fathers

  • Deuteronomy 4:37 - And because he loved thy fathers therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight power with his mighty out of Egypt

  • 1 Chronicles 4:38 - These mentioned by their names were princes in their families and the house of their fathers increased greatly

  • Numbers 4:38 - And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon throughout their families and by the house of their fathers

  • Numbers 4:40 - Even those that were numbered of them throughout their families by the house of their fathers were two thousand and six hundred and thirty

  • Numbers 4:42 - And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari of the families by the house of their fathers

  • Numbers 4:46 - All those that were numbered All those that were numbered whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel of the Levites after their families and after the house of their fathers

  • 1 Chronicles 5:1 - Now the sons of Reuben for he was the firstborn of Israel for he was the firstborn but forasmuch as he defiled bed his father's was given after the birthright Now the sons of Joseph Now the sons of Israel and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright

  • 1 Kings 5:1 - sent And Hiram him king of Tyre his servants unto Solomon for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father a lover And Hiram of David was ever

  • 2 Chronicles 5:1 - was finished Thus all the work made and Solomon for the house of the LORD brought and Solomon had dedicated that David his father and the silver and the gold and all the instruments put he among the treasures for the house of God

  • 2 Chronicles 5:2 - assembled Then Solomon the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel unto Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David which is Zion

  • Deuteronomy 5:3 - with our fathers made The LORD not this covenant but with us even us who are all of us this day here alive

  • 1 Kings 5:3 - Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the ~ of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side put of the LORD them under the soles of his feet

  • Lamentations 5:3 - We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows

  • 1 Kings 5:5 - And behold I purpose in thy room he shall build an house unto my ~ as the LORD my God spake as the LORD unto David my father And behold I purpose Thy son whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room he shall build an house unto my ~

  • Joshua 5:6 - forty years walked For the children of Israel in the wilderness were consumed till all the people of war which came out of Egypt because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD sware of the LORD that he would not shew them the land sware of the LORD unto their fathers that he would give them the land that floweth with milk and honey

  • Lamentations 5:7 - Our fathers have sinned and are not their iniquities and we have borne

  • Deuteronomy 5:9 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them nor serve them for I the LORD thy God God am a jealous visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate

  • Ezekiel 5:10 - Therefore the fathers shall eat of thee and the sons in the midst of thee and the sons shall eat Therefore the fathers and I will execute judgments of thee will I scatter in thee and the whole remnant into all the winds

  • 1 Chronicles 5:13 - And their brethren of the house of their fathers were Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jachan and Zia and Heber seven

  • 2 Kings 5:13 - came near And his servants and spake unto him and said My father thing thee do some great if the prophet and spake wouldest thou not have done it how much rather then unto him and said to thee Wash and be clean

  • 1 Chronicles 5:15 - Ahi the son of Abdiel the son of Guni chief of the house of their fathers

  • Deuteronomy 5:16 - Honour thy father and thy mother hath commanded as the LORD thy God may be prolonged thee that thy days and that it may go well with thee in the land as the LORD thy God giveth

  • 1 Chronicles 5:24 - And these were the heads of the house of their fathers even Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel mighty of valour famous And these were the heads of the house of their fathers

  • 1 Chronicles 5:25 - And they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went a whoring after against the God of the people of the land destroyed against the God before

  • Deuteronomy 6:3 - Hear therefore O Israel and observe to do it that it may be well with thee and that ye may increase mightily hath promised as the LORD God of thy fathers thee in the land that floweth with milk and honey

  • 2 Chronicles 6:4 - And he said Blessed be the LORD God of Israel that which he spake with his mouth David to my father who hath with his hands fulfilled And he said

  • 2 Chronicles 6:7 - Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel

  • Numbers 6:7 - for his father or for his mother for his brother or for his sister He shall not make himself unclean when they die because the consecration of his God is upon his head

  • 2 Chronicles 6:8 - said But the LORD to David my father Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name thou didst well Forasmuch as it was in thine heart

  • Deuteronomy 6:10 - shall have brought And it shall be when the LORD thy God thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give cities thee great and goodly which thou buildedst

  • 2 Chronicles 6:10 - for I am risen up The LORD his word promised for I am risen up in the room of David my father and am set on the throne of Israel promised The LORD and have built the house for the name The LORD God of Israel

  • 1 Kings 6:12 - Concerning this house which thou art in building in my statutes my judgments and execute and keep all my commandments in them then will I perform my word with thee which I spake unto David thy father

  • Judges 6:13 - said And Gideon unto him Oh my Lord if Did not the LORD be with us why then is all this befallen us and where be all his miracles told which our fathers said from Egypt bring us up Did not the LORD hath forsaken Did not the LORD us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites

  • Exodus 6:14 - These be the heads houses of their fathers The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel Hanoch and Pallu Hezron and Carmi these be the families of Reuben

  • 2 Chronicles 6:15 - Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father him and spakest him and spakest with thy mouth it with thine hand and hast fulfilled as it is this day

  • Judges 6:15 - And he said unto him Oh my Lord wherewith shall I save Israel behold my family is poor in Manasseh and I am the least house in my father's

  • 2 Chronicles 6:16 - Now therefore O LORD God of Israel keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him saying There shall not fail thee a man before to sit upon the throne of Israel yet so keep that thy children to their way as thou hast walked in my law as thou hast walked before

  • Deuteronomy 6:18 - And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest go in and possess land and good sware of the LORD unto thy fathers

  • 1 Chronicles 6:19 - The sons of Merari Mahli and Mushi And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers

  • Proverbs 6:20 - keep My son commandment thy father's and forsake not the law of thy mother

  • 2 Kings 6:21 - said And the king of Israel unto Elisha when he saw shall I smite shall I smite them My father