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)


  • Proverbs 23:22 - Hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise when she is old not thy mother

  • Proverbs 23:24 - rejoice shall greatly The father of the righteous and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy child shall have joy

  • Proverbs 23:25 - shall be glad Thy father and thy mother thee shall rejoice and she that bare

  • Proverbs 27:10 - Thine own friend Thine own friend and thy father's forsake house into thy brother's not neither go in the day of thy calamity for better is a neighbour that is near into thy brother's far off

  • Proverbs 28:7 - Whoso keepeth the law son is a wise but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father

  • Proverbs 28:24 - Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith It is no transgression the same is the companion of a destroyer

  • Proverbs 29:3 - Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance

  • Proverbs 30:11 - There is a generation their father that curseth their mother and doth not bless

  • Proverbs 30:17 - The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother shall pick it out the ravens of the valley shall eat and the young eagles

  • Psalms 22:4 - in thee they trusted Our fathers in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver

  • Psalms 27:10 - When my father and my mother forsake me then the LORD will take me up

  • Psalms 39:12 - Hear my prayer O LORD unto my cry and give ear at my tears hold not thy peace for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers

  • Psalms 44:1 - O God with our ears We have heard our fathers have told us what work thou didst in the times in the times of old

  • Psalms 45:10 - Hearken O daughter and consider and incline thine ear forget also thine own people house and thy father's

  • Psalms 45:16 - Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth

  • Psalms 49:19 - He shall go to the generation of his fathers they shall never see light

  • Psalms 68:5 - A father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is God habitation in his holy

  • Psalms 78:3 - Which we have heard and known and our fathers have told

  • Psalms 78:5 - For he established a testimony in Jacob a law and appointed in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children

  • Psalms 78:8 - And might not be as their fathers a generation a stubborn and rebellious a generation aright not their heart was not stedfast with God and whose spirit