Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1: אָב (ʼâb) 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 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

  • 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

  • 2 Samuel 6:21 - said And David unto Michal It was before of the LORD which chose me before thy father and before all his house to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD over Israel therefore will I play It was before of the LORD

  • 2 Samuel 7:12 - be fulfilled And when thy days and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels and I will establish his kingdom

  • 2 Samuel 7:14 - I will be his father and he shall be my son If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod and with the stripes and he shall be my son of men

  • 2 Samuel 9:7 - said And David unto him Fear not for I will surely not for I will surely thee kindness for Jonathan thy father sake and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually

  • 2 Samuel 10:2 - Then said And David's I will shew kindness unto Hanun of the children of Nahash I will shew as his father kindness sent And David's to comfort him by the hand of his servants as his father came of his servants And David's into the land of the children of Ammon

  • 2 Samuel 10:3 - said And the princes of the children of Ammon unto Hanun their lord doth honour thou that David thy father Thinkest rather sent comforters unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow rather sent thou that David his servants

  • 2 Samuel 13:5 - said And Jonadab unto him Lay thee down on thy bed and make thyself sick come and when thy father that I may see said come Tamar unto him I pray thee let my sister and give me meat and dress in my sight the meat that I may see it and eat it at her hand

  • 2 Samuel 14:9 - said And the woman of Tekoah O king My lord O king the iniquity house be on me and on my father's O king and his throne be guiltless

  • 2 Samuel 15:34 - to the city But if thou return and say unto Absalom I will be thy servant O king I will be thy servant as I have been thy father's hitherto I will be thy servant then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel

  • 2 Samuel 16:3 - for he said And the king son And where is thy master's for he said And Ziba And the king Behold he abideth at Jerusalem for he said To day restore shall the house of Israel me the kingdom of my father

  • 2 Samuel 16:19 - And again as I have served presence of his son as I have served presence in thy father's presence

  • 2 Samuel 16:21 - said And Ahithophel unto Absalom Go in concubines of thy father which he hath left to keep the house shall hear and all Israel that thou art abhorred of thy father of all that are with thee be strong then shall the hands

  • 2 Samuel 16:22 - So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house went in Absalom concubines unto his father's in the sight of all Israel

  • 2 Samuel 17:8 - For said Hushai thou knowest and thy father is a man that they be mighty men and they be chafed in their minds as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field and thy father is a man of war and will not lodge with the people

  • 2 Samuel 17:10 - And he also that is valiant and they which be with him are valiant is as the heart is as the heart of a lion melt melt knoweth for all Israel is a mighty man that thy father And he also that is valiant and they which be with him are valiant

  • 2 Samuel 17:23 - And when Ahithophel saw was not followed that his counsel he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home and put his household to his city in order and put his household and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father

  • 2 Samuel 19:28 - were but house For all of my father's dead before my lord any more unto the king yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table therefore have What right I yet to cry any more unto the king

  • 2 Samuel 19:37 - I pray thee turn back again But behold thy servant that I may die in mine own city and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother But behold thy servant Chimham let him go over with my lord the king and do to him what shall seem good