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)


  • Nehemiah 9:16 - But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments

  • Judges 9:17 - fought For my father for you and adventured his life far and delivered you out of the hand of Midian

  • Genesis 9:18 - And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth and Ham is the father of Canaan

  • Judges 9:18 - And ye are risen up house against my father's this day and have slain his sons threescore and ten persons stone upon one king and have made Abimelech his sons of his maidservant over the men of Shechem because he is your brother

  • 1 Chronicles 9:19 - And Shallum the son of Kore the son of Ebiasaph the son of Korah and his brethren of the house and their fathers the Korahites were over the work of the service keepers of the gates of the tabernacle and their fathers being over the host of the LORD keepers of the entry

  • 1 Samuel 9:20 - And as for thine asses that were lost ago three ago set not thy mind on them for they are found And on whom is all the desire of Israel house Is it not on thee and on all thy father's

  • Genesis 9:22 - saw And Ham of his father of Canaan the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without

  • Genesis 9:23 - took And Shem and Japheth a garment and laid their shoulders it upon both backward and covered nakedness not their father's and their faces backward nakedness not their father's and they saw

  • Nehemiah 9:23 - Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers and broughtest to possess

  • 2 Kings 9:25 - Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain Take up and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite for remember how that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father the LORD Take up this burden

  • 2 Kings 9:28 - carried And his servants him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David

  • Judges 9:28 - said And Gaal him is not he the son of Ebed Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem for why should we serve him is not he the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his officer for why should we serve of Hamor the father and who is Shechem for why should we serve

  • 2 Chronicles 9:31 - slept And Solomon his father and he was buried in the city of David his father reigned and Rehoboam his son

  • Nehemiah 9:32 - Now therefore our God God the great the mighty and the terrible who keepest covenant and mercy seem little before let not all the trouble thee that hath come of the kings on our princes and on our priests and on our prophets and on our fathers and on all thy people since the time of the kings of Assyria since the time

  • 1 Chronicles 9:33 - And these are the singers chief of the fathers of the Levites who remaining in the chambers day and night for they were employed in that work

  • 1 Chronicles 9:34 - These chief fathers of the Levites throughout their generations These chief these dwelt at Jerusalem

  • Nehemiah 9:34 - Neither have our kings our princes our priests nor our fathers kept thy law nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify

  • 1 Chronicles 9:35 - And in Gibeon dwelt the father And in Gibeon Jehiel name whose wife's was Maachah

  • Nehemiah 9:36 - this day Behold we are servants and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good Behold we are servants

  • Judges 9:56 - rendered Thus God the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father in slaying his seventy brethren

  • Proverbs 10:1 - The proverbs of Solomon son A wise maketh a glad father son but a foolish is the heaviness of his mother

  • 1 Samuel 10:2 - which thou wentest to day from me are found two sepulchre by Rachel's in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah and they will say are found of the asses which thou wentest to seek hath left and lo thy father the care of the asses and sorroweth and they will say What shall I do for my son

  • 2 Samuel 10:2 - Then said And David's I will shew kindness unto Hanun of the children of Nahash I will shew as his father kindness sent And David's to comfort him by the hand of his servants as his father came of his servants And David's into the land of the children of Ammon

  • 2 Kings 10:3 - Look even out the best and meetest sons for your master's and set throne him on his father's and fight house for your master's

  • 2 Samuel 10:3 - said And the princes of the children of Ammon unto Hanun their lord doth honour thou that David thy father Thinkest rather sent comforters unto thee to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow rather sent thou that David his servants

  • 2 Chronicles 10:4 - Thy father grievous made our yoke now therefore ease servitude Thy father thou somewhat the grievous made our yoke and his heavy that he put upon us and we will serve

  • Exodus 10:6 - And they shall fill and the houses and the houses of all thy servants and the houses of all the Egyptians have seen fathers fathers fathers since the day that they were upon the earth since the day And he turned himself and went out from Pharaoh

  • 2 Chronicles 10:6 - counsel give And king Rehoboam with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived saying What counsel give ye me to return to this people answer

  • 2 Chronicles 10:9 - And he said unto them What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people which have spoken And he said Ease somewhat the yoke did put that thy father

  • 2 Chronicles 10:10 - that spake And the young men that were brought up Thus shalt thou answer Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake Thus shalt thou answer Thy father heavy our yoke but make thou it somewhat lighter Thus shalt thou answer unto them My little finger shall be thicker loins Thy father

  • Deuteronomy 10:11 - said And the LORD unto me Arise thy journey before the people that they may go in and possess the land which I sware unto their fathers to give

  • Ezra 10:11 - Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers and do his pleasure and separate yourselves from the people of the land wives and from the strange

  • 2 Chronicles 10:11 - For whereas my father put to your yoke a heavy upon you I will put more to your yoke my father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions

  • 1 Samuel 10:12 - of the same place answered And one and said But who is their father Therefore it became a proverb Is Saul also among the prophets

  • 2 Chronicles 10:14 - And answered them after the advice of the young men saying My father heavy made your yoke but I will add My father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions

  • Deuteronomy 10:15 - in thy fathers had a delight Only the LORD to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as it is this day

  • Ezra 10:16 - did so And the children of the captivity were separated And Ezra the priest chief of the fathers after the house of the fathers and all of them by their names and sat down day in the first month of the tenth to examine the matter

  • Genesis 10:21 - Unto Shem even to him were children born also the father of all the children of Eber the brother of Japheth the elder

  • Deuteronomy 10:22 - with threescore and ten persons went down Thy fathers into Egypt hath made and now the LORD thy God thee as the stars of heaven for multitude

  • Nehemiah 10:34 - the lots And we cast offering for the wood among the priests the Levites and the people to bring after the houses of our God after the houses of our fathers at times appointed by year by year to burn upon the altar of the LORD of our God as it is written in the law

  • 2 Kings 10:35 - slept And Jehu with his fathers and they buried him in Samaria reigned And Jehoahaz his son

  • Judges 11:2 - bare and his wife's And Gilead's for thou art the son grew up for thou art the son and his wife's and they thrust out Jephthah and said unto him Thou shalt not inherit house in our father's for thou art the son and his wife's of a strange

  • 1 Kings 11:4 - For it came to pass when was old Solomon that his wives turned away and his heart after gods other and his heart was not perfect with the LORD gods and his heart of David his father

  • Jeremiah 11:4 - Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt furnace from the iron saying Obey my voice and do Which I commanded you so shall ye be my people and I will be your God

  • Jeremiah 11:5 - That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as it is this day Then answered I and said So be it O LORD

  • 1 Kings 11:6 - did And Solomon evil in the sight of the LORD and went not fully after of the LORD as did David his father

  • Jeremiah 11:7 - For I earnestly For I earnestly unto your fathers even unto this day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt even unto this day rising early For I earnestly saying Obey my voice

  • Judges 11:7 - said And Jephthah unto the elders of Gilead Did not ye hate me and expel house me out of my father's and why are ye come

  • Deuteronomy 11:9 - And that ye may prolong your days in the land sware which the LORD unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed a land that floweth with milk and honey

  • Jeremiah 11:10 - They are turned back to the iniquities with their fathers of their forefathers which refused to hear my words and they went after gods other to serve have broken and the house of Israel and the house of Judah my covenant which I made with their fathers

  • 1 Kings 11:12 - Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's it out of the hand of thy son sake but I will rend

  • Numbers 11:12 - Have I conceived all this people have I begotten them that thou shouldest say beareth them in thy bosom beareth as a nursing father the sucking child unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers

  • Nehemiah 11:13 - And his brethren chief of the fathers hundred forty and two and Amashai the son of Azareel the son of Ahasai the son of Meshillemoth the son of Immer

  • 2 Chronicles 11:16 - And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem to sacrifice the LORD God of their fathers

  • 1 Kings 11:17 - fled That Hadad Edomites servants of his father's with him to go into Egypt Hadad child being yet a little

  • Deuteronomy 11:21 - may be multiplied That your days That your days of your children in the land sware which the LORD unto your fathers to give That your days of heaven upon the earth

  • 1 Kings 11:21 - And when Hadad heard in Egypt slept that David with his fathers was dead and that Joab the captain of the host said And when Hadad to Pharaoh Let me depart to mine own country

  • Daniel 11:24 - peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province He shall enter and he shall do and he shall do fathers fathers fathers among them the prey and spoil and riches he shall scatter against the strong holds yea and he shall forecast his devices even for a time

  • 1 Kings 11:27 - And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king Solomon built Millo and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father

  • Genesis 11:28 - died And Haran before Terah his father in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees

  • Genesis 11:29 - took And Abram and Nahor them wives and the name them wives And Abram was Sarai and the name them wives and Nahor Milcah the daughter of Haran and the father Milcah and the father of Iscah

  • 1 Kings 11:33 - Because that they have forsaken me and have worshipped Ashtoreth the god of the Zidonians Chemosh the god of the Moabites and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon and have not walked in my ways to do that which is right in mine eyes and to keep my statutes and my judgments as did David his father

  • Judges 11:36 - And she said unto him My father if thou hast opened out of thy mouth as the LORD do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth forasmuch to me according to that which do as the LORD vengeance for thee of thine enemies even of the children of Ammon

  • Daniel 11:37 - the God of his fathers Neither shall he regard nor the desire of women any god Neither shall he regard for he shall magnify

  • Judges 11:37 - And she said unto her father be done Let this thing for me let me alone two months and down upon the mountains and bewail my virginity

  • Daniel 11:38 - and a god of forces But in his estate not shall he honour and a god knew whom his fathers not shall he honour with gold and silver stones and with precious

  • Judges 11:39 - And it came to pass at the end of two months that she returned unto her father who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed and she knew no man And it was a custom in Israel

  • 1 Kings 11:43 - slept And Solomon his father and was buried in the city of David his father reigned and Rehoboam his son

  • Deuteronomy 12:1 - These are the statutes and judgments which ye shall observe to do in the land giveth which the LORD God of thy fathers thee to possess it all the days that ye live upon the earth

  • Genesis 12:1 - had said Now the LORD unto Abram of thy country and from thy kindred house and from thy father's of thy country that I will shew

  • Exodus 12:3 - Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel saying In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers a lamb according to the house

  • 1 Kings 12:4 - Thy father grievous our yoke upon us lighter service Thy father now therefore make thou the grievous our yoke and his heavy which he put and we will serve

  • 1 Kings 12:6 - How do ye advise And king Rehoboam with the old men that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived and said How do ye advise that I may this people answer

  • 1 Samuel 12:6 - said And Samuel unto the people It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron and that brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt

  • Jeremiah 12:6 - For even thy brethren and the house of thy father even they have dealt treacherously with thee yea they have called after a multitude thee believe them not though they speak fair words

  • 1 Samuel 12:7 - Now therefore stand still that I may reason with you before of the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD which he did to you and to your fathers

  • 1 Samuel 12:8 - was come When Jacob into Egypt cried and your fathers then the LORD sent then the LORD Moses and Aaron which brought forth and your fathers into Egypt and made them dwell in this place

  • 1 Kings 12:9 - And he said unto them What counsel give ye that we may answer this people who have spoken And he said Make the yoke did put which thy father

  • 1 Kings 12:10 - that spake And the young men that were grown up Thus shalt thou speak Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake Thus shalt thou speak Thy father heavy our yoke but make thou it lighter that spake unto them My little finger shall be thicker loins Thy father

  • 1 Kings 12:11 - And now whereas my father did lade to your yoke you with a heavy I will add to your yoke And now whereas my father but I will chastise you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions

  • Nehemiah 12:12 - And in the days of Joiakim were priests the chief of the fathers of Seraiah Meraiah of Jeremiah Hananiah

  • 1 Kings 12:14 - And spake to them after the counsel of the young men saying My father heavy to your yoke and I will add to your yoke My father also chastised you with whips also chastised you with scorpions

  • Numbers 12:14 - said And the LORD unto Moses If her father had but had but in her face should she not be ashamed seven days let her be shut seven days out from the camp and after that let her be received

  • 1 Samuel 12:15 - But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD but rebel against the commandment of the LORD then shall the hand of the LORD be against you as it was against your fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 12:16 - slept And Rehoboam with his fathers and was buried in the city of David reigned and Abijah his son

  • 1 Chronicles 12:17 - went out And David to meet them and answered and said peaceably unto them If ye be come unto me to help me mine heart shall be knit unto you but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies seeing there is no wrong in mine hands look the God of our fathers thereon and rebuke

  • 2 Kings 12:18 - took And Jehoash and in the king's of Judah all the hallowed things had dedicated that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers and in the king's of Judah all the hallowed things and all the gold that was found in the treasures house of the LORD house and in the king's and sent it to Hazael and in the king's of Syria and he went away from Jerusalem

  • 2 Kings 12:21 - For Jozachar his son of Shimeath and Jehozabad his son of Shomer his servants smote him and he died and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David reigned and Amaziah his son

  • Nehemiah 12:22 - The Levites in the days of Eliashib Joiada and Johanan and Jaddua were recorded chief of the fathers also the priests to the reign of Darius the Persian

  • Nehemiah 12:23 - The sons of Levi the chief of the fathers were written in the book of the chronicles even until the days even until the days of Johanan The sons of Eliashib

  • 1 Chronicles 12:28 - And Zadok a young man mighty of valour house and of his father's captains twenty and two

  • 1 Chronicles 12:30 - And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred mighty of valour men famous throughout the house of their fathers

  • Proverbs 13:1 - son A wise instruction heareth his father's but a scorner heareth not rebuke

  • Numbers 13:2 - Send thou men that they may search the land of Canaan which I give unto the children of Israel of every a man of every a man tribe of their fathers Send every one a ruler

  • Zechariah 13:3 - him through when he prophesieth And it shall come to pass that when any him shall say and his father and his mother that begat unto him Thou shalt not live lies for thou speakest in the name of the LORD him shall thrust and his father and his mother that begat him through when he prophesieth

  • Exodus 13:5 - shall bring And it shall be when the LORD thee a land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee a land flowing with milk and honey that thou shalt keep this service in this month

  • 2 Samuel 13:5 - said And Jonadab unto him Lay thee down on thy bed and make thyself sick come and when thy father that I may see said come Tamar unto him I pray thee let my sister and give me meat and dress in my sight the meat that I may see it and eat it at her hand

  • Deuteronomy 13:6 - entice If thy brother or thy son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul thee secretly saying and serve gods other which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers

  • 2 Kings 13:9 - slept And Jehoahaz with his fathers and they buried him in Samaria reigned and Joash his son

  • Exodus 13:11 - shall bring And it shall be when the LORD thee into the land of the Canaanites as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers and shall give