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)


  • Judges 14:10 - went down So his father unto the woman made and Samson there a feast made for so used the young men

  • Judges 14:15 - day And it came to pass on the seventh that they said wife unto Samson's Entice thy husband that he may declare unto us the riddle lest we burn house thee and thy father's with fire us to take that we have have ye called

  • Judges 14:16 - wept wife And Samson's before him and said Thou dost but hate me and lovest a riddle me not thou hast put forth unto the children of my people and hast not told before him and said it my father nor my mother and hast not told and hast not told

  • Judges 14:19 - came And the Spirit of the LORD upon him and he went down to Ashkelon and slew thirty men of them and took their spoil and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle was kindled And his anger and he went up house to his father's

  • Judges 15:1 - But it came to pass within a while after But it came to pass within a while after harvest of wheat visited that Samson his wife with a kid and he said I will go in his wife into the chamber would not suffer But her father I will go in

  • Judges 15:2 - I verily And her father I verily I verily hated hated her therefore I gave her to thy companion sister is not her younger fairer

  • Judges 15:6 - said And the Philistines Who hath done said Samson the son in law of the Timnite because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion came up And the Philistines and burnt her and her father with fire

  • Judges 16:31 - came down Then his brethren and all the house his father and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father And he judged Israel twenty years

  • Judges 17:10 - said And Micah unto him Dwell with me and be unto me a father and a priest and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year and a suit of apparel and thy victuals So the Levite

  • Judges 18:19 - And they said unto him Hold thy peace lay thine hand upon thy mouth with us and be to us a father and a priest is it better with us and be to us and a priest unto the house man of one with us and be to us and a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel

  • Judges 18:29 - And they called after the name of the city Dan after the name Dan their father who was born unto Israel howbeit was Laish after the name of the city at the first

  • Judges 19:2 - played the whore And his concubine house from him unto her father's to Bethlehemjudah whole and was there four months

  • Judges 19:3 - arose And her husband after her to speak friendly unto her and to bring her again having his servant with him and a couple of asses and she brought house and when the father saw and when the father of the damsel him he rejoiced to meet

  • Judges 19:4 - retained And his father in law father the damsel's him and he abode with him three days so they did eat and drink and lodged

  • Judges 19:5 - day And it came to pass on the fourth when they arose early in the morning that he rose up said father and the damsel's unto his son in law Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread and afterward

  • Judges 19:6 - And they sat down and did eat both of them together and drink had said father for the damsel's unto the man Be content I pray thee and tarry all night be merry and let thine heart

  • Judges 19:8 - And he arose early in the morning day on the fifth said father and the damsel's Comfort thine heart I pray thee And they tarried until afternoon day and they did eat both

  • Judges 19:9 - rose up And when the man that thou mayest go he and his concubine and his servant said his father in law father the damsel's draweth behold the day toward evening I pray you tarry all night groweth to an end behold the day I pray you tarry all night may be merry here that thine heart get you early and to morrow on your way that thou mayest go home

  • Judges 21:22 - come And it shall be when their fathers or their brethren unto us to complain that we will say unto them Be favourable unto them for our sakes because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war for ye did not give unto them at this time that ye should be guilty

  • Lamentations 5:3 - We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows