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)


  • 1 Kings 13:11 - prophet an old Now there dwelt in Bethel came and his sons and told him all the works had done that the man of God that day in Bethel the words which he had spoken unto the king and told also to their father

  • 1 Kings 13:12 - said And their father what unto them What way went had seen he For his sons unto them What way went the man of God which came from Judah

  • 2 Chronicles 13:12 - himself is with us for our captain And behold God and his priests trumpets with sounding to cry alarm against you O children of Israel fight ye not against the LORD And behold God of your fathers for ye shall not prosper

  • 2 Kings 13:13 - slept And Joash with his fathers and Jeroboam sat upon his throne was buried And Joash in Samaria with the kings of Israel

  • 2 Kings 13:14 - Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died came down And Joash the king of Israel unto him and wept over his face and said O my father O my father the chariot of Israel and the horsemen

  • Jeremiah 13:14 - And I will dash them one against another even the fathers and the sons together saith the LORD I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy but destroy

  • Deuteronomy 13:17 - And there shall cleave to thine hand nought of the cursed thing may turn that the LORD from the fierceness of his anger and shew thee mercy and have compassion upon thee and multiply thee as he hath sworn unto thy fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 13:18 - were brought Thus the children of Israel under at that time prevailed Thus the children of Judah because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers

  • Nehemiah 13:18 - Did not your fathers bring not our God all this evil upon us and upon this city more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath

  • 1 Kings 13:22 - But camest back and hast eaten bread and drink no water in the place of the which the LORD did say and hast eaten bread and drink no water shall not come thy carcase unto the sepulchre of thy fathers

  • 2 Kings 13:25 - again And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took the cities out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael took out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war Three times beat did Joash again the cities of Israel

  • 1 Samuel 14:1 - Now it came to pass upon a day said that Jonathan the son of Saul unto the young man that bare his armour and let us go over garrison to the Philistines that is on the other side not his father But he told

  • 2 Chronicles 14:1 - slept So Abijah with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David reigned and Asa his son in his stead In his days was quiet the land ten years

  • 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

  • Judges 14:2 - And he came up and told his father and his mother and said a woman I have seen in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines now therefore get a woman

  • 2 Kings 14:3 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD yet not like David his father And he did according to all things as Joash his father And he did

  • Judges 14:3 - said Then his father and his mother unto him Is there never among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people a wife that thou goest Get a wife Philistines of the uncircumcised said And Samson Then his father Get her for me for she pleaseth me well

  • 2 Chronicles 14:4 - And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers and to do the law and the commandment

  • Judges 14:4 - But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD an occasion that he sought against the Philistines for at that time against the Philistines had dominion over Israel

  • 2 Kings 14:5 - was confirmed And it came to pass as soon as the kingdom in his hand that he slew his servants that he slew the king his father

  • Judges 14:5 - Then went Samson and his father and his mother of Timnath and came to the vineyards of Timnath and behold a young lion roared against

  • 2 Kings 14:6 - But the children of the murderers be put to death not according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses commanded wherein the LORD saying be put to death The fathers But the children But the children be put to death The fathers but every man for his own sin be put to death

  • Judges 14:6 - came mightily And the Spirit of the LORD him as he would have rent him as he would have rent a kid and he had nothing in his hand but he told not his father or his mother what he had done

  • 2 Samuel 14:9 - said And the woman of Tekoah O king My lord O king the iniquity house be on me and on my father's O king and his throne be guiltless

  • Judges 14:9 - And he took thereof in his hands and came and came eating and came to his father and mother and he gave eating but he told out of the carcase of the lion And he took the honey

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

  • 1 Kings 14:15 - shall smite For the LORD Israel is shaken as a reed in the water and he shall root up Israel land out of this good which he gave to their fathers and shall scatter them beyond the river because they have made their groves to anger For the LORD

  • 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

  • 2 Kings 14:16 - slept And Jehoash with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel reigned and Jeroboam his son

  • 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

  • Numbers 14:18 - The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy forgiving iniquity and transgression and by no means and by no means the guilty visiting iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth

  • 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

  • 1 Kings 14:20 - And the days reigned which Jeroboam and twenty were two years and he slept with his fathers reigned and Nadab his son

  • 2 Kings 14:20 - And they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David

  • Jeremiah 14:20 - We acknowledge O LORD our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned

  • 2 Kings 14:21 - took And all the people of Judah Azariah old which was sixteen years and made him king instead of his father Amaziah

  • Isaiah 14:21 - Prepare for his children slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers that they do not rise nor possess the land nor fill the face of the world with cities

  • 1 Kings 14:22 - did And Judah evil in the sight of the LORD and they provoked him to jealousy did above all that their fathers with their sins which they had committed

  • 2 Kings 14:22 - He built Elath and restored it to Judah after slept that the king with his fathers

  • Numbers 14:23 - Surely they shall not me see the land which I sware unto their fathers neither shall any of them that provoked me see

  • 1 Samuel 14:27 - But Jonathan heard charged not when his father the people wherefore he put forth the end of the rod his hand and dipped it in an honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth were enlightened and his eyes

  • 1 Samuel 14:28 - Then answered be the man And the people and said charged charged Thy father And the people and said Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day were faint And the people

  • 1 Samuel 14:29 - Then said Jonathan hath troubled My father the land see have been enlightened I pray you how mine eyes because I tasted a little of this honey

  • 2 Kings 14:29 - slept And Jeroboam with his fathers even with the kings of Israel reigned and Zachariah his son

  • 1 Kings 14:31 - slept And Rehoboam with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David ~ And his mother's was Naamah an Ammonitess reigned And Abijam his son

  • 1 Samuel 14:51 - And Kish the father of Saul and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel

  • 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

  • Exodus 15:2 - is my strength and song The LORD and he is become my salvation he is my God and I will prepare him an habitation God my father's and I will exalt

  • 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

  • 1 Kings 15:3 - in all the sins his father which he had done before as the heart was not perfect with the LORD his God as the heart of David his father

  • 2 Kings 15:3 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD And he did Amaziah according to all that his father

  • Proverbs 15:5 - A fool despiseth instruction his father's but he that regardeth reproof is prudent

  • 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

  • 2 Kings 15:7 - slept So Azariah him with his fathers and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David reigned and Jotham his son

  • 1 Kings 15:8 - slept And Abijam with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David reigned and Asa his son

  • 2 Kings 15:9 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD And he did as his fathers he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat to sin who made Israel

  • Job 15:10 - With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men much than thy father elder

  • 1 Kings 15:11 - did And Asa that which was right in the eyes of the LORD as did David his father

  • 1 Chronicles 15:12 - And said unto them Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites sanctify yourselves both ye and your brethren that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared

  • 1 Kings 15:12 - And he took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols had made that his fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 15:12 - And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul

  • 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

  • Genesis 15:15 - And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace thou shalt be buried old age in a good

  • 1 Kings 15:15 - And he brought and the things which himself had dedicated which his father and the things which himself had dedicated into the house of the LORD silver and gold and vessels

  • 2 Chronicles 15:18 - And he brought and that he himself had dedicated the things that his father and that he himself had dedicated into the house of God silver and gold and vessels

  • Job 15:18 - Which wise men have told and have not hid from their fathers

  • 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

  • 1 Kings 15:19 - There is a league and thy father and thy father behold I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold and break There is a league with Baasha king of Israel that he may depart

  • Proverbs 15:20 - son A wise maketh a glad father but a foolish man despiseth his mother

  • 2 Kings 15:22 - slept And Menahem with his fathers reigned and Pekahiah his son

  • 1 Kings 15:24 - slept And Asa his father and was buried his father in the city of David his father reigned and Jehoshaphat his son

  • 1 Kings 15:26 - And he did evil in the sight of the LORD in the way of his father and in his sin to sin wherewith he made Israel

  • 2 Kings 15:34 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD And he did Uzziah according to all that his father And he did

  • 2 Samuel 15:34 - to the city But if thou return and say unto Absalom I will be thy servant O king I will be thy servant as I have been thy father's hitherto I will be thy servant then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel

  • 2 Kings 15:38 - slept And Jotham his father and was buried his father in the city of David his father reigned and Ahaz his son

  • 2 Kings 16:2 - old Twenty years was Ahaz and reigned sixteen years and reigned in Jerusalem and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God like David his father

  • Ezekiel 16:3 - And say And say the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan thy father was an Amorite and thy mother an Hittite

  • 2 Chronicles 16:3 - There is a league and thy father and thy father behold I have sent thee silver and gold break There is a league with Baasha king of Israel that he may depart

  • 2 Samuel 16:3 - for he said And the king son And where is thy master's for he said And Ziba And the king Behold he abideth at Jerusalem for he said To day restore shall the house of Israel me the kingdom of my father

  • Jeremiah 16:3 - For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place and concerning their mothers that are born them and concerning their fathers that are born them in this land

  • 1 Kings 16:6 - slept So Baasha with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah reigned and Elah his son

  • Jeremiah 16:7 - Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning to comfort them for the dead to drink neither shall men give them the cup of consolation for their father or for their mother

  • Jeremiah 16:11 - Then shalt thou say have forsaken unto them Because your fathers me saith the LORD after gods other and have served them and have worshipped have forsaken my law me and have not kept

  • Jeremiah 16:12 - worse And ye have done than your fathers ye walk every one after the imagination heart of his evil that they may not hearken

  • 2 Chronicles 16:13 - slept And Asa with his fathers and died year and fortieth in the one of his reign

  • Jeremiah 16:13 - Therefore will I cast into a land into a land that ye know not neither ye nor your fathers and there shall ye serve gods other day and night where I will not shew you favour

  • Jeremiah 16:15 - liveth But The LORD that brought up the children of Israel and from all the lands of the north and from all the lands whither he had driven them and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers

  • 2 Samuel 16:19 - And again as I have served presence of his son as I have served presence in thy father's presence

  • Jeremiah 16:19 - O LORD my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of affliction the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say lies have inherited Surely our fathers vanity and things wherein there is no profit

  • 2 Kings 16:20 - slept And Ahaz with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David reigned and Hezekiah his son

  • 2 Samuel 16:21 - said And Ahithophel unto Absalom Go in concubines of thy father which he hath left to keep the house shall hear and all Israel that thou art abhorred of thy father of all that are with thee be strong then shall the hands

  • 2 Samuel 16:22 - So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house went in Absalom concubines unto his father's in the sight of all Israel

  • 1 Kings 16:28 - slept So Omri with his fathers and was buried in Samaria reigned and Ahab his son

  • 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

  • Leviticus 16:32 - stead shall make the atonement And the priest whom he shall anoint and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's and shall put on clothes the linen clothes even the holy

  • Ezekiel 16:45 - daughter Thou art thy mother's that lotheth her husband and her children and thou art the sister and thou art the sister that lotheth their husbands and her children Thou art thy mother's was an Hittite and your father an Amorite

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 17:2 - And he placed forces and in the cities of Judah in all the fenced And he placed garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim had taken which Asa his father

  • Numbers 17:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel and take of every one of them a rod of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve of every one of them a rod thou every man's name write of every one of them a rod

  • 2 Chronicles 17:3 - And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked ways David of his father in the first and sought not unto Baalim