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 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

  • Jeremiah 6:21 - Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will lay before this people stumblingblocks shall fall and the fathers and the sons together upon them the neighbour and his friend shall perish

  • Deuteronomy 6:23 - And he brought us out from thence that he might bring us in to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers

  • Joshua 6:23 - went in And the young men that were spies and all that she had and they brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brethren all her kindred and all that she had and they brought out and left them without the camp of Israel

  • Exodus 6:25 - And Eleazar son Aaron's took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife and she bare him Phinehas these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families

  • 2 Chronicles 6:25 - Then hear thou from the heavens and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers

  • Joshua 6:25 - Rahab the harlot household and her father's alive And Joshua and all that she had and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day because she hid the messengers sent And Joshua to spy out Jericho

  • Judges 6:25 - And it came to pass the same night said that the LORD unto him Take bullock bullock that thy father bullock even the second of seven years old and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father the grove hath and cut down

  • Judges 6:27 - took Then Gideon ten of his servants and did had said as the LORD unto him and so it was because he feared household his father's of the city and did it by day and did it by night

  • 2 Chronicles 6:31 - That they may fear in thy ways so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 6:38 - If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity whither they have carried them captives and pray toward in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers and toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house which I have built for thy name

  • 1 Chronicles 7:2 - And the sons of Tola Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Jibsam and Shemuel heads house of their father's of Tola they were valiant men of might in their generations whose number was in the days of David and twenty two thousand and six hundred

  • Numbers 7:2 - offered That the princes of Israel heads of the house of their fathers That the princes of the tribes and were over them that were numbered

  • 1 Chronicles 7:4 - And with them by their generations after the house of their fathers were bands of soldiers for war and thirty six thousand men for they had many wives and sons

  • Micah 7:6 - For the son dishonoureth the father the daughter riseth up against her mother the daughter in law against her mother in law enemies a man's are the men of his own house

  • 1 Chronicles 7:7 - And the sons of Bela Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri five heads of the house of their fathers mighty men of valour and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four

  • Jeremiah 7:7 - Then will I cause you to dwell in this place in the land that I gave to your fathers and ever for and ever

  • Deuteronomy 7:8 - loved But because the LORD you and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers brought you out But because the LORD from the hand with a mighty and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt

  • 1 Chronicles 7:9 - And the number of them after their genealogy by their generations heads of the house of their fathers mighty men of valour was twenty thousand and two hundred

  • 1 Chronicles 7:11 - All these the sons of Jediael by the heads of their fathers mighty men of valour were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers fit to go out for war and battle

  • Deuteronomy 7:12 - Wherefore it shall come to pass if ye hearken to these judgments and keep and do and keep them that the LORD thy God unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 7:13 - And he will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee and bless and the fruit of thy womb and the fruit in the land thy corn and thy wine and thine oil the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give

  • 1 Chronicles 7:14 - The sons of Manasseh Ashriel bare but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead

  • 1 Kings 7:14 - son He was a widow's of the tribe of Naphtali and his father was a man of Tyre a worker in brass and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning and wrought all his work in brass And he came to king Solomon and wrought all his work

  • 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

  • Jeremiah 7:14 - Therefore will I do unto this house which is called by my name wherein ye trust and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers Therefore will I do to Shiloh

  • 2 Chronicles 7:17 - walked before walked me as David thy father and do according to all that I have commanded my statutes and my judgments thee and shalt observe

  • Isaiah 7:17 - shall bring The LORD upon thee and upon thy people house and upon thy father's days shall bring days departed that Ephraim from Judah even the king of Assyria

  • 2 Chronicles 7:18 - Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom There shall not fail with David thy father saying There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel

  • Jeremiah 7:18 - The children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings gods unto other that they may provoke me to anger

  • Micah 7:20 - Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob and the mercy to Abraham which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old

  • Micah 7:20 - Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob and the mercy to Abraham which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old

  • 1 Chronicles 7:22 - mourned And Ephraim their father days many came and his brethren to comfort

  • 2 Chronicles 7:22 - And it shall be answered Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt and laid hold God on other and worshipped them and served them therefore hath he brought all this evil

  • Jeremiah 7:22 - For I spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices

  • Jeremiah 7:25 - Since the day came forth out that your fathers of the land of Egypt Since the day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets Since the day rising up early I have even sent

  • Jeremiah 7:26 - Yet they hearkened not unto me nor inclined their ear but hardened their neck they did worse than their fathers

  • Ezra 7:27 - Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers which hath put heart such a thing as this in the king's to beautify the house be the LORD which is in Jerusalem

  • 1 Chronicles 7:31 - And the sons of Beriah Heber and Malchiel who is the father of Birzavith

  • 1 Chronicles 7:40 - All these were the children of Asher chief house of their father's choice and mighty men of valour chief of the princes throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle And the number was twenty and six thousand

  • 1 Kings 7:51 - So was ended all the work made that king And Solomon for the house of the LORD brought in And Solomon had dedicated the things which David his father even the silver and the gold and the vessels did he put among the treasures for the house of the LORD

  • Nehemiah 7:61 - And these were they which went up also from Telmelah Telharesha Cherub Addon and Immer but they could not shew house their father's nor their seed whether they were of Israel

  • Nehemiah 7:70 - And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work The Tirshatha gave to the treasure of gold drams a thousand basons fifty garments priests and thirty five hundred

  • Nehemiah 7:71 - And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work of gold drams twenty thousand of silver pound and two thousand and two hundred

  • Deuteronomy 8:1 - All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do that ye may live and multiply and go in and possess the land sware which the LORD unto your fathers

  • Ezra 8:1 - These are now the chief of their fathers and this is the genealogy of them that went up in the reign of Artaxerxes the king with me from Babylon

  • 1 Kings 8:1 - assembled Solomon the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel unto king Solomon in Jerusalem that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David which is Zion

  • Deuteronomy 8:3 - And he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna know know not neither did thy fathers know by bread only doth not live doth man but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth not live doth man

  • Isaiah 8:4 - shall have knowledge For before the child to cry My father and my mother shall be taken away the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria before the king of Assyria

  • 1 Chronicles 8:6 - And these are the sons of Ehud these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba and they removed them to Manahath

  • Job 8:8 - For enquire age I pray thee of the former and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers

  • 1 Chronicles 8:10 - And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirma These were his sons heads of the fathers

  • 1 Chronicles 8:13 - Beriah also and Shema who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon who who drove away of the inhabitants of Gath

  • Nehemiah 8:13 - day And on the second were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people the priests and the Levites unto Ezra the scribe even to understand the words of the law

  • 2 Chronicles 8:14 - And he appointed according to the order for so had David his father also by their courses before the priests to their service and the Levites to their charges to praise and minister before the priests as the duty of every day of every day the porters also by their courses at every gate at every gate commanded for so had David the man of God

  • Zechariah 8:14 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts As I thought to punish provoked me to wrath you when your fathers For thus saith the LORD of hosts and I repented

  • 1 Kings 8:15 - And he said Blessed be the LORD God of Israel which spake with his mouth unto David my father and hath with his hand fulfilled And he said

  • Deuteronomy 8:16 - Who fed with manna thee in the wilderness knew which thy fathers not that he might humble thee and that he might prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end

  • 1 Kings 8:17 - And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the ~ of the LORD God of Israel

  • Deuteronomy 8:18 - But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers as it is this day

  • 1 Kings 8:18 - said And the LORD unto David my father Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my ~ thou didst well it was in thine heart

  • 1 Kings 8:20 - and I am risen up And the LORD his word promised and I am risen up in the room of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel promised And the LORD and have built an house for the ~ And the LORD God of Israel

  • 1 Kings 8:21 - And I have set there a place for the ark wherein is the covenant of the LORD which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt

  • 1 Kings 8:24 - Who hast kept with thy servant David my father him thou spakest him thou spakest also with thy mouth it with thine hand and hast fulfilled as it is this day

  • 2 Kings 8:24 - slept And Joram with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David reigned and Ahaziah his son

  • 1 Kings 8:25 - Therefore now LORD God of Israel keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him saying There shall not fail thee a man before to sit on the throne of Israel so keep that thy children to their way me as thou hast walked before me as thou hast walked before

  • 1 Kings 8:26 - And now O God of Israel I pray thee be verified let thy word which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father

  • Ezra 8:28 - And I said are holy unto the LORD the vessels are holy also and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers

  • 1 Chronicles 8:28 - These were heads of the fathers by their generations These were heads men These dwelt in Jerusalem

  • Ezra 8:29 - Watch ye and keep them until ye weigh them before and chief of the priests and the Levites and chief of the fathers of Israel at Jerusalem in the chambers of the house of the LORD

  • 1 Chronicles 8:29 - And at Gibeon dwelt the father And at Gibeon name whose wife's was Maachah

  • Judges 8:32 - died And Gideon the son of Joash old age in a good and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father in Ophrah of the Abiezrites

  • 1 Kings 8:34 - Then hear thou in heaven and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers

  • 1 Kings 8:40 - That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers

  • 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies which led them away captive and pray unto thee toward in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy ~

  • 1 Kings 8:53 - For thou didst separate to be thine inheritance them from among all the people of the earth as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt O Lord

  • 1 Kings 8:57 - The LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers let him not leave us nor forsake

  • 1 Kings 8:58 - That he may incline our hearts in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments which he commanded our fathers

  • Judges 9:1 - And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal to Shechem brethren of his mother's and communed with them and with all the family of the house father of his mother's saying

  • Nehemiah 9:2 - separated And the seed of Israel themselves from all strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers

  • 1 Samuel 9:3 - were lost And the asses And Kish father Saul's said And Kish Saul's his son Take now one of the servants with thee and arise seek And the asses

  • 1 Kings 9:4 - walked before walked me as David thy father in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all that I have commanded my statutes and my judgments thee and wilt keep

  • Deuteronomy 9:5 - Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go doth drive them out their land doth drive them out of these nations the LORD thy God but for the wickedness from before thee and that he may perform the word sware the LORD unto thy fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob

  • 1 Kings 9:5 - Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom of Israel for ever as I promised to David thy father saying There shall not fail thee a man the throne of Israel

  • 1 Samuel 9:5 - And when they were come to the land of Zuph Saul said to his servant and let us return leave lest my father caring for the asses and take thought

  • Judges 9:5 - And he went house unto his father's at Ophrah and slew his brethren son of Jerubbaal being threescore and ten persons stone upon one was left notwithstanding yet Jotham son of Jerubbaal the youngest for he hid

  • Daniel 9:6 - Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets which spake in thy name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land

  • Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder shall be called and his name Wonderful Counsellor God The mighty Father The everlasting The Prince of Peace

  • Ezra 9:7 - Since the days of our fathers trespass have we been in a great Since the days and for our iniquities been delivered have we our kings and our priests into the hand have we our kings of the lands to the sword to captivity and to a spoil and to confusion of face Since the days

  • 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

  • Daniel 9:8 - O Lord to us belongeth confusion of face to our kings to our princes and to our fathers because we have sinned

  • 1 Chronicles 9:9 - And their brethren according to their generations nine hundred and fifty and six were chief of the fathers in the house of the fathers

  • 1 Kings 9:9 - And they shall answer Because they forsook the LORD gods who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt and have taken hold gods upon other and have worshipped them and served brought the LORD upon them all this evil

  • Nehemiah 9:9 - And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt their cry and heardest sea by the Red

  • Hosea 9:10 - like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time I saw your fathers but they went to Baalpeor and separated themselves unto that shame and their abominations were according as they loved

  • 1 Chronicles 9:13 - And their brethren heads of the house of their fathers a thousand and seven hundred and threescore men very able for the work of the service of the house of God

  • Jeremiah 9:14 - after the imagination of their own heart after Baalim taught which their fathers

  • Daniel 9:16 - O Lord according to all thy righteousness be turned away I beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury from thy city Jerusalem mountain thy holy because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about

  • Jeremiah 9:16 - I will scatter them also among the heathen have known whom neither they nor their fathers and I will send after a sword them till I have consumed