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 43:8 - said And Judah unto Israel his father Send the lad with me and we will arise that we may live and not die both we and thou and also our little ones

  • Genesis 43:11 - said Israel And their father unto them If it must be so now do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels and carry down a present a little balm a little honey spices and myrrh nuts and almonds

  • Genesis 43:23 - And he said Peace be to you fear and the God and the God of your father hath given you treasure in your sacks your money I had And he brought Simeon

  • Genesis 43:27 - And he asked them of their welfare and said them of their welfare Is your father the old man and said Is he yet alive

  • Genesis 43:28 - And they answered is in good health Thy servant our father he is yet alive And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance

  • Genesis 44:17 - And he said God forbid that I should do so but the man is found the cup in whose hand he shall be my servant and as for you get you up in peace unto your father

  • Genesis 44:19 - My lord asked his servants saying Have ye a father or a brother

  • Genesis 44:20 - And we said unto my lord We have a father an old man and a child of his old age a little one and his brother is dead and he alone is left of his mother a father loveth

  • Genesis 44:22 - And we said unto my lord cannot The lad for if he should leave his father for if he should leave his father his father would die

  • Genesis 44:24 - And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father we told him the words of my lord

  • Genesis 44:25 - said And our father Go again and buy us a little food

  • Genesis 44:27 - said And thy servant my father unto us Ye know me two bare that my wife

  • Genesis 44:30 - Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father and the lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up be not with us seeing that his life

  • Genesis 44:31 - It shall come to pass when he seeth that the lad is not with us that he will die shall bring down and thy servants the gray hairs and thy servants our father with sorrow to the grave

  • Genesis 44:32 - For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father saying If I bring him not unto thee then I shall bear the blame my father for ever

  • Genesis 44:34 - For how shall I go up my father and the lad be not with me lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father

  • Genesis 45:3 - said And Joseph And his brethren And Joseph doth my father yet live could And his brethren not answer him for they were troubled at his presence

  • Genesis 45:8 - So now it was not you that sent me hither but God and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt

  • Genesis 45:9 - Haste ye and go up to my father and say and say thy son Joseph hath made God me lord of all Egypt come down unto me tarry

  • Genesis 45:13 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that ye have seen and ye shall haste and bring down my father