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 45:18 - And take your father and your households and come unto me and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt and ye shall eat the fat of the land

  • Genesis 45:19 - Now thou art commanded this do ye take out of the land of Egypt you wagons for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come

  • Genesis 45:23 - And to his father he sent after this and ten she asses laden with the good things of Egypt and ten asses laden with corn and bread and meat And to his father by the way

  • Genesis 45:25 - And they went up out of Egypt and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father

  • Genesis 45:27 - And they told him all the words of Joseph And they told unto them and when he saw the wagons had sent of Joseph to carry revived him the spirit of Jacob their father

  • Genesis 46:1 - took his journey And Israel with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac

  • Genesis 46:3 - And he said I am God the God of thy father fear not to go down into Egypt nation of thee a great for I will there make

  • Genesis 46:5 - rose up And Jacob from Beersheba carried and the sons of Israel And Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons had sent which Pharaoh carried

  • Genesis 46:29 - made ready And Joseph his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen and presented himself unto him and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while

  • Genesis 46:31 - and say And Joseph unto him My brethren house and my father's I will go up and shew Pharaoh and say unto him My brethren house and my father's which were in the land of Canaan are come

  • Genesis 46:34 - That ye shall say trade hath been about cattle Thy servants from our youth even until now both we and also our fathers that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen is an abomination unto the Egyptians for every shepherd

  • Genesis 47:1 - and all that they have are come out Then Joseph and told Pharaoh and said My father and my brethren and their flocks and their herds and all that they have are come out and behold they are in the land of Canaan and behold they are in the land of Goshen

  • Genesis 47:3 - And they said And Pharaoh unto his brethren What is your occupation And they said And Pharaoh are shepherds Thy servants both we and also our fathers

  • Genesis 47:5 - saying And Pharaoh unto Joseph saying Thy father and thy brethren are come

  • Genesis 47:6 - The land of Egypt is before thee in the best The land let them dwell thy father and brethren let them dwell The land of Goshen and if thou knowest of activity among them then make them rulers over my cattle

  • Genesis 47:7 - brought in And Joseph Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh blessed Jacob Pharaoh

  • Genesis 47:9 - said And Jacob unto Pharaoh The days of the years of my pilgrimage and thirty are an hundred of the years few and evil The days of the years of my life been and have not attained The days of the years of my life of my fathers The days of my pilgrimage

  • Genesis 47:11 - placed And Joseph his father and his brethren and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt in the best in the land in the land of Rameses had commanded as Pharaoh

  • Genesis 47:12 - nourished And Joseph and all his father's and his brethren household and all his father's with bread according to their families

  • Genesis 47:30 - But I will lie with my fathers and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their buryingplace And he said I will do as thou hast said