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)


  • 1 Kings 5:1 - sent And Hiram him king of Tyre his servants unto Solomon for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father a lover And Hiram of David was ever

  • 1 Kings 5:3 - Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the ~ of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side put of the LORD them under the soles of his feet

  • 1 Kings 5:5 - And behold I purpose in thy room he shall build an house unto my ~ as the LORD my God spake as the LORD unto David my father And behold I purpose Thy son whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room he shall build an house unto my ~

  • 1 Kings 6:12 - Concerning this house which thou art in building in my statutes my judgments and execute and keep all my commandments in them then will I perform my word with thee which I spake unto David thy father

  • 1 Kings 7:14 - son He was a widow's of the tribe of Naphtali and his father was a man of Tyre a worker in brass and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and cunning and wrought all his work in brass And he came to king Solomon and wrought all his work

  • 1 Kings 7:51 - So was ended all the work made that king And Solomon for the house of the LORD brought in And Solomon had dedicated the things which David his father even the silver and the gold and the vessels did he put among the treasures for the house of the LORD

  • 1 Kings 8:1 - assembled Solomon the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel unto king Solomon in Jerusalem that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David which is Zion

  • 1 Kings 8:15 - And he said Blessed be the LORD God of Israel which spake with his mouth unto David my father and hath with his hand fulfilled And he said

  • 1 Kings 8:17 - And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the ~ of the LORD God of Israel

  • 1 Kings 8:18 - said And the LORD unto David my father Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my ~ thou didst well it was in thine heart

  • 1 Kings 8:20 - and I am risen up And the LORD his word promised and I am risen up in the room of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel promised And the LORD and have built an house for the ~ And the LORD God of Israel

  • 1 Kings 8:21 - And I have set there a place for the ark wherein is the covenant of the LORD which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt

  • 1 Kings 8:24 - Who hast kept with thy servant David my father him thou spakest him thou spakest also with thy mouth it with thine hand and hast fulfilled as it is this day

  • 1 Kings 8:25 - Therefore now LORD God of Israel keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him saying There shall not fail thee a man before to sit on the throne of Israel so keep that thy children to their way me as thou hast walked before me as thou hast walked before

  • 1 Kings 8:26 - And now O God of Israel I pray thee be verified let thy word which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father

  • 1 Kings 8:34 - Then hear thou in heaven and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers

  • 1 Kings 8:40 - That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers

  • 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies which led them away captive and pray unto thee toward in the land which thou gavest unto their fathers the city which thou hast chosen and the house which I have built for thy ~

  • 1 Kings 8:53 - For thou didst separate to be thine inheritance them from among all the people of the earth as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt O Lord

  • 1 Kings 8:57 - The LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers let him not leave us nor forsake