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 48:1 - And it came to pass after these things that one told Joseph Behold thy father is sick and he took with him his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim

  • Genesis 48:9 - me in this place And he said And Joseph unto his father They are my sons hath given whom God me in this place And he said Bring them I pray thee unto me and I will bless

  • Genesis 48:15 - And he blessed Joseph and said God did walk whom my fathers before Abraham and Isaac God which fed me all my life long unto this day

  • Genesis 48:16 - The Angel which redeemed me from all evil bless the lads be named and let my name and let my name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth

  • Genesis 48:17 - saw And when Joseph laid his father's hand his right head it from Ephraim's it displeased him and he held up hand his father's to remove head it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's

  • Genesis 48:18 - said And Joseph Not so my father Not so my father for this is the firstborn put thy right hand upon his head

  • Genesis 48:19 - refused And his father and said I know it my son I know it he also shall become a people and he also shall be great but truly brother his younger and he also shall be great than he and his seed shall become a multitude of nations

  • Genesis 48:21 - said And Israel unto Joseph Behold I die but God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers

  • Genesis 49:2 - Gather yourselves together and hear ye sons of Jacob and hear unto Israel your father

  • Genesis 49:4 - Unstable as water thou shalt not excel because thou wentest up bed to thy father's then defiledst thou to my couch because thou wentest up

  • Genesis 49:8 - Judah shall praise thou art he whom thy brethren thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies shall bow down children thy father's

  • Genesis 49:25 - Even by the God of thy father who shall help the Almighty who shall bless blessings of heaven blessings of the deep that lieth blessings of the breasts and of the womb

  • Genesis 49:26 - The blessings of thy father have prevailed The blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound hills of the everlasting they shall be on the head of Joseph and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren

  • Genesis 49:28 - tribes of Israel All these are the twelve them every spake and this is it that their father he blessed them every according to his blessing he blessed

  • Genesis 49:29 - And he charged them and said unto them I am to be gathered unto my people bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite

  • Genesis 50:1 - fell And Joseph face upon his father's and wept upon him and kissed

  • Genesis 50:2 - commanded And Joseph his servants and the physicians embalmed his father embalmed and the physicians Israel

  • Genesis 50:5 - My father made me swear saying Lo I die in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan I pray thee and bury Now therefore let me go up I pray thee and bury My father and I will come again

  • Genesis 50:6 - said And Pharaoh Go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear

  • Genesis 50:7 - and with him went up And Joseph to bury his father and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh and all the elders of his house and all the elders of the land of Egypt