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 27:31 - And he also had made savoury meat and brought it Let my father and said Let my father arise Let my father and eat venison of his son's may bless that thy soul

  • Genesis 27:32 - said And Isaac his father said I am thy son thy firstborn Esau

  • Genesis 27:34 - heard And when Esau the words me even me also O my father he cried cry with a great bitter and exceeding and said me even me also O my father Bless me even me also O my father

  • Genesis 27:38 - said And Esau me even me also O my father blessing Hast thou but one me even me also O my father bless me even me also O my father lifted up And Esau his voice and wept

  • Genesis 27:39 - answered And Isaac his father and said shall be the fatness of the earth unto him Behold thy dwelling and of the dew of heaven from above

  • Genesis 27:41 - hated And Esau Jacob because of the blessing wherewith blessed him for my father said And Esau in his heart are at hand The days of mourning for my father then will I slay Jacob my brother

  • Genesis 28:2 - Arise to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel father thy mother's and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban brother thy mother's

  • Genesis 28:7 - obeyed And that Jacob his father and his mother to Padanaram

  • Genesis 28:8 - seeing And Esau not that the daughters of Canaan pleased Isaac his father

  • Genesis 28:13 - And behold the LORD stood above it and said And behold the LORD God of Abraham thy father God of Isaac the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed

  • Genesis 28:21 - So that I come again in peace house to my father's then shall the LORD be my God

  • Genesis 29:9 - And while he yet spake with them Rachel came sheep with her father's for she kept them

  • Genesis 29:12 - and told And Jacob Rachel brother her father son and that he was Rebekah's and she ran and told her father

  • Genesis 31:1 - And he heard the words sons of Laban's saying hath taken away Jacob all that was our father's all that was our father's hath he gotten all this glory

  • Genesis 31:3 - said And the LORD unto Jacob Return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred

  • Genesis 31:5 - And said unto them I see countenance of my father that it is not toward me as before but the God of my father hath been

  • Genesis 31:6 - And ye know that with all my power I have served your father

  • Genesis 31:7 - And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times suffered him but God not to hurt me

  • Genesis 31:9 - hath taken away Thus God the cattle of your father and given

  • Genesis 31:14 - answered And Rachel and Leah and said unto him Is there yet any portion or inheritance house for us in our father's