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)


  • Genesis 9:18 - And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth and Ham is the father of Canaan

  • Genesis 9:22 - saw And Ham of his father of Canaan the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without

  • Genesis 9:23 - took And Shem and Japheth a garment and laid their shoulders it upon both backward and covered nakedness not their father's and their faces backward nakedness not their father's and they saw

  • Genesis 10:21 - Unto Shem even to him were children born also the father of all the children of Eber the brother of Japheth the elder

  • Genesis 11:28 - died And Haran before Terah his father in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees

  • Genesis 11:29 - took And Abram and Nahor them wives and the name them wives And Abram was Sarai and the name them wives and Nahor Milcah the daughter of Haran and the father Milcah and the father of Iscah

  • Genesis 12:1 - had said Now the LORD unto Abram of thy country and from thy kindred house and from thy father's of thy country that I will shew

  • Genesis 15:15 - And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace thou shalt be buried old age in a good

  • Genesis 17:4 - As for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations

  • Genesis 17:5 - any more be called Neither shall thy name Abram Neither shall thy name shall be Abraham for a father of many nations have I made thee

  • Genesis 19:31 - said And the firstborn unto the younger Our father is old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner in the earth

  • Genesis 19:32 - drink of our father wine and we will lie with him that we may preserve of our father seed

  • Genesis 19:33 - And they made their father wine that night went in and the firstborn and lay their father and he perceived and lay nor when she arose

  • Genesis 19:34 - And it came to pass on the morrow said that the firstborn unto the younger Behold I lay yesternight of our father let us make him drink wine this night also and go thou in Behold I lay with him that we may preserve of our father seed

  • Genesis 19:35 - And they made night that their father wine arose also and the younger and lay with him and he perceived and lay arose

  • Genesis 19:36 - with child Thus were both the daughters of Lot by their father

  • Genesis 19:37 - bare And the firstborn a son and called his name Moab the same is the father Moab unto this day

  • Genesis 19:38 - And the younger she also bare a son and called his name Benammi the same is the father a son of Ammon unto this day

  • Genesis 20:12 - And yet indeed she is my sister but not the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife

  • Genesis 20:13 - caused me to wander And it came to pass when God house from my father's say unto her This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me at every place whither we shall come say of me He is my brother