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)


  • Numbers 17:3 - name Aaron's And thou shalt write rod of Levi rod for one shall be for the head of the house of their fathers

  • Genesis 17:4 - As for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations

  • 2 Chronicles 17:4 - to the LORD God of his father But sought in his commandments and walked and not after the doings of Israel

  • 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

  • Genesis 17:5 - any more be called Neither shall thy name Abram Neither shall thy name shall be Abraham for a father of many nations have I made thee

  • Numbers 17:6 - spake And Moses unto the children of Israel gave and every one of their princes and the rod and every one of their princes one and the rod and every one of their princes one houses according to their fathers even twelve and the rod and the rod of Aaron was among and the rod

  • Proverbs 17:6 - are the crown of old men Children's Children's and the glory Children's are their fathers

  • 2 Samuel 17:8 - For said Hushai thou knowest and thy father is a man that they be mighty men and they be chafed in their minds as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field and thy father is a man of war and will not lodge with the people

  • 2 Samuel 17:10 - And he also that is valiant and they which be with him are valiant is as the heart is as the heart of a lion melt melt knoweth for all Israel is a mighty man that thy father And he also that is valiant and they which be with him are valiant

  • 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

  • 1 Chronicles 17:11 - be expired And it shall come to pass when thy days to be with thy fathers that I will raise up thy seed after thee which shall be of thy sons and I will establish his kingdom

  • 1 Chronicles 17:13 - I will be his father and he shall be my son my mercy and I will not take and I will not take it from him that was before

  • 2 Kings 17:13 - testified Yet the LORD against Israel and against Judah by all the prophets and by all the seers saying Turn ways ye from your evil and keep my commandments and my statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent by my servants all the prophets

  • 2 Chronicles 17:14 - And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers Of Judah the captains of thousands Adnah the captains and with him mighty men of valour three hundred of thousands

  • 2 Kings 17:14 - Notwithstanding they would not hear but hardened like to the neck like to the neck of their fathers that did not believe in the LORD their God

  • Job 17:14 - to corruption I have said Thou art my father Thou art my mother and my sister to the worm

  • 1 Samuel 17:15 - But David went and returned from Saul to feed sheep his father's at Bethlehem

  • 2 Kings 17:15 - And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified and went after vanity and became vain and went after the heathen that were round about had charged them concerning whom the LORD them that they should not do

  • Proverbs 17:21 - He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow hath no joy and the father of a fool

  • Jeremiah 17:22 - Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses day on the sabbath ye any work neither do but hallow day on the sabbath as I commanded your fathers

  • 2 Samuel 17:23 - And when Ahithophel saw was not followed that his counsel he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home and put his household to his city in order and put his household and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father

  • 1 Samuel 17:25 - said And the men Israel Have ye seen And the men is he come up surely to defy Israel is he come up And the men who killeth will enrich him the king riches him with great him his daughter and will give house his father's and make free Israel

  • Proverbs 17:25 - is a grief to his father son A foolish and bitterness to her that bare

  • 1 Samuel 17:34 - said And David unto Saul kept Thy servant his father's sheep and there came a lion and a bear and took a lamb out of the flock

  • 2 Kings 17:41 - So these nations the LORD their graven images and served and their children's and their children's and their children's as did their fathers as did they unto this day

  • Numbers 18:1 - said And the LORD unto Aaron Thou and thy sons house and thy father's with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary Thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood

  • Ezekiel 18:2 - What mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel saying The fathers have eaten sour grapes teeth and the children's are set on edge

  • 1 Samuel 18:2 - took And Saul him that day and would let him go no more home house to his father's

  • Numbers 18:2 - And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi the tribe of thy father bring thou with thee that they may be joined unto thee and minister unto thee but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness

  • 2 Kings 18:3 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD And he did according to all that David his 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

  • Exodus 18:4 - And the name of the other was Eliezer for the God of my father said he was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh

  • Ezekiel 18:4 - Behold all souls Behold all souls of the father Behold all souls of the son Behold all souls that sinneth it shall die

  • Leviticus 18:7 - The nakedness of thy father The nakedness of thy mother shalt thou not uncover of thy mother shalt thou not uncover The nakedness

  • Deuteronomy 18:8 - They shall have like portions They shall have like portions to eat beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony

  • Leviticus 18:8 - The nakedness wife it is thy father's shalt thou not uncover The nakedness it is thy father's

  • Leviticus 18:9 - The nakedness of thy sister or daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother or born at home or born abroad thou shalt not uncover The nakedness

  • Leviticus 18:11 - The nakedness daughter wife's of thy father begotten of thy father she is thy sister thou shalt not uncover The nakedness

  • Leviticus 18:12 - the nakedness sister of thy father's Thou shalt not uncover near kinswoman of thy father's

  • Ezekiel 18:14 - Now lo if he beget a son and considereth sins all his father's and doeth and considereth and doeth not such like

  • Leviticus 18:14 - the nakedness brother of thy father's Thou shalt not uncover to his wife thou shalt not approach she is thine aunt

  • Ezekiel 18:17 - from the poor That hath taken off his hand usury nor increase that hath not received my judgments hath executed in my statutes hath walked he shall not die for the iniquity of his father he shall surely he shall surely

  • Ezekiel 18:18 - As for his father oppressed because he cruelly spoiled by violence his brother that which is not good and did among his people lo even he shall die in his iniquity

  • 1 Kings 18:18 - And he answered I have not troubled Israel house but thou and thy father's in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD Baalim

  • 1 Samuel 18:18 - said And David unto Saul Who am I and what is my life family or my father's in Israel that I should be son in law to the king

  • Ezekiel 18:19 - Yet say bear When the son the iniquity of the father When the son that which is lawful and right and hath done all my statutes and hath kept and hath done live live

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 18:20 - The soul that sinneth it shall die The son bear the iniquity neither shall the father neither shall the father bear the iniquity The son the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him and the wickedness of the wicked

  • 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

  • 1 Chronicles 19:2 - said And David I will shew kindness to Hanun of the children of Nahash I will shew because his father kindness sent And David messengers to comfort because his father came So the servants And David into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun to comfort

  • 1 Samuel 19:2 - told But Jonathan David saying seeketh Saul my father to kill thee now therefore I pray thee take heed to thyself until the morning and abide in a secret place and hide

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

  • 1 Chronicles 19:3 - said But the princes of the children of Ammon to Hanun doth honour thou that David thy father Thinkest that he hath sent comforters unto thee for to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land come unto thee are not his servants

  • 1 Samuel 19:3 - And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art and I will commune my father I see of thee and what that I will tell

  • 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

  • Leviticus 19:3 - every man his mother and his father Ye shall fear my sabbaths and keep I am the LORD your God

  • 1 Kings 19:4 - But he himself went into the wilderness journey a day's and came and sat down juniper tree under a and he requested for himself that he might die and said It is enough now O LORD take away for himself for I am not better than my fathers

  • 1 Samuel 19:4 - spake And Jonathan against David good unto Saul his father and said because he hath not sinned unto him Let not the king against his servant against David because he hath not sinned against thee and because his works good have been to thee-ward very

  • 2 Chronicles 19:4 - dwelt And Jehoshaphat at Jerusalem again and he went out through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim again unto the LORD God of their fathers

  • Jeremiah 19:4 - Because they have forsaken me and have estranged this place and have burned incense gods in it unto other have known whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah and have filled this place with the blood of innocents

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 19:8 - enlarge And if the LORD thy God thy coast as he hath sworn unto thy fathers and give thee all the land which he promised and give unto thy fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 19:8 - Moreover in Jerusalem set did Jehoshaphat of the Levites and of the priests and of the chief of the fathers of Israel for the judgment of the LORD and for controversies when they returned Moreover in Jerusalem

  • 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

  • 2 Kings 19:12 - delivered Have the gods of the nations have destroyed them which my fathers as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar

  • Proverbs 19:13 - is the calamity of his father son A foolish dropping are a continual and the contentions of a wife

  • Proverbs 19:14 - House and riches are the inheritance of fathers is from the LORD wife and a prudent

  • 1 Kings 19:20 - And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said Let me I pray thee kiss my father and my mother after and said and then I will follow again for what have I done

  • Proverbs 19:26 - He that wasteth his father and chaseth away his mother is a son that causeth shame and bringeth reproach

  • 2 Samuel 19:28 - were but house For all of my father's dead before my lord any more unto the king yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table therefore have What right I yet to cry any more unto the king

  • Genesis 19:31 - said And the firstborn unto the younger Our father is old and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner in the earth

  • Genesis 19:32 - drink of our father wine and we will lie with him that we may preserve of our father seed

  • Genesis 19:33 - And they made their father wine that night went in and the firstborn and lay their father and he perceived and lay nor when she arose

  • Genesis 19:34 - And it came to pass on the morrow said that the firstborn unto the younger Behold I lay yesternight of our father let us make him drink wine this night also and go thou in Behold I lay with him that we may preserve of our father seed

  • Genesis 19:35 - And they made night that their father wine arose also and the younger and lay with him and he perceived and lay arose

  • Genesis 19:36 - with child Thus were both the daughters of Lot by their father

  • Genesis 19:37 - bare And the firstborn a son and called his name Moab the same is the father Moab unto this day

  • 2 Samuel 19:37 - I pray thee turn back again But behold thy servant that I may die in mine own city and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother But behold thy servant Chimham let him go over with my lord the king and do to him what shall seem good

  • Genesis 19:38 - And the younger she also bare a son and called his name Benammi the same is the father a son of Ammon unto this day

  • 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

  • 1 Samuel 20:1 - fled And David from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan What have I done what is mine iniquity and what is my sin before thy father that he seeketh my life

  • 1 Samuel 20:2 - And he said unto him God forbid thou shalt not die will do behold my father nothing either great nothing or small but that he will shew hide behold my father nothing

  • 1 Samuel 20:3 - sware And David and he saith certainly certainly Thy father that I have found grace in thine eyes and he saith certainly Let not Jonathan this lest he be grieved but truly liveth as the LORD liveth and as thy soul there is but a step between me and death

  • Ezekiel 20:4 - Wilt thou judge Wilt thou judge them son of man the abominations of their fathers them cause them to know

  • Exodus 20:5 - Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them for I the LORD thy God God am a jealous visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate

  • 2 Kings 20:5 - Turn again Thus saith Hezekiah the captain of my people Thus saith of the LORD the God of David thy father I have heard thy prayer I have seen thy tears behold I will heal day thee on the third thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 20:6 - at all at all If thy father me then say asked asked David leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city sacrifice for there is a yearly there for all the family

  • 2 Chronicles 20:6 - And said O LORD God of our fathers God in heaven and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand

  • 1 Samuel 20:8 - Therefore thou shalt deal kindly thy servant into a covenant of the LORD for thou hast brought thy servant with thee notwithstanding if there be in me iniquity slay me to thy father for thou hast brought

  • 1 Samuel 20:9 - said And Jonathan Far be it from thee certainly certainly were determined that evil by my father to come upon thee then would not I tell

  • Leviticus 20:9 - For every For every he hath cursed his father or his mother put to death put to death his father or his mother he hath cursed his blood

  • 1 Samuel 20:10 - Then said David to Jonathan Who shall tell answer me or what if thy father thee roughly

  • Leviticus 20:11 - And the man that lieth wife his father's nakedness his father's hath uncovered be put to death be put to death both their blood

  • Exodus 20:12 - Honour thy father and thy mother may be long that thy days upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth

  • Genesis 20:12 - And yet indeed she is my sister but not the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife

  • 1 Samuel 20:12 - said And Jonathan toward David O LORD God of Israel when I have sounded my father any time about to morrow or the third toward David and I then send not unto thee and shew