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)


  • Joshua 1:6 - Be strong and of a good courage shalt thou divide for an inheritance for unto this people the land which I sware unto their fathers to give

  • Joshua 2:12 - Now therefore I pray you swear unto me by the LORD since I have shewed kindness I have shewed house unto my father's kindness and give token me a true

  • Joshua 2:13 - And that ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death

  • Joshua 2:18 - Behold when we come into the land this line thread of scarlet thou shalt bind in the window which thou didst let us down by and all thy father's and thy mother and thy brethren home and all thy father's and thou shalt bring home

  • Joshua 4:21 - And he spake When your children of Israel And he spake shall ask When your children in time to come their fathers And he spake What mean these stones

  • Joshua 5:6 - forty years walked For the children of Israel in the wilderness were consumed till all the people of war which came out of Egypt because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD sware of the LORD that he would not shew them the land sware of the LORD unto their fathers that he would give them the land that floweth with milk and honey

  • Joshua 6:23 - went in And the young men that were spies and all that she had and they brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brethren all her kindred and all that she had and they brought out and left them without the camp of Israel

  • Joshua 6:25 - Rahab the harlot household and her father's alive And Joshua and all that she had and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day because she hid the messengers sent And Joshua to spy out Jericho

  • Joshua 14:1 - distributed for inheritance And these are the countries which the children of Israel in the land of Canaan distributed for inheritance which Eleazar the priest and Joshua And these are the countries which the children of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes And these are the countries which the children of Israel

  • Joshua 15:13 - And unto Caleb the children of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua even the city of Arba the father of Anak which city is Hebron

  • Joshua 15:18 - And it came to pass as she came unto him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted off her ass said and Caleb

  • Joshua 17:1 - There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh for he was the firstborn of Joseph to wit for Machir for he was the firstborn of Manasseh the father of Gilead because he was a man of war of Gilead and Bashan

  • Joshua 17:4 - And they came near and before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the princes saying The LORD commanded Moses he gave them an inheritance among our brethren he gave Therefore according to the commandment The LORD them an inheritance among our brethren of their father

  • Joshua 18:3 - said And Joshua unto the children of Israel How long are ye slack to go to possess the land hath given which the LORD God of your fathers

  • Joshua 19:47 - went out And the coast of the children Dan went up of the children Dan to fight Leshem and took it and smote it with the edge of the sword and possessed it and dwelt therein and called Leshem Dan after the name Dan their father

  • Joshua 19:51 - These are the inheritances divided for an inheritance which Eleazar the priest and Joshua of the children of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel by lot in Shiloh before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation So they made an end of dividing the country

  • Joshua 21:1 - Then came near and unto the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest and unto Joshua of the children of Nun and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel

  • Joshua 21:11 - And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak which city is Hebron in the hill country of Judah with the suburbs thereof round about

  • Joshua 21:43 - gave And the LORD unto Israel all the land which he sware gave unto their fathers and they possessed it and dwelt

  • Joshua 21:44 - gave them rest And the LORD round about according to all that he sware unto their fathers and there stood not a man before all their enemies all their enemies delivered And the LORD into their hand