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)


  • Genesis 20:13 - caused me to wander And it came to pass when God house from my father's say unto her This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me at every place whither we shall come say of me He is my brother

  • 1 Samuel 20:13 - so do The LORD to Jonathan so and much more but if it please be with thee as he hath been with my father to do thee evil then I will shew it thee and send thee away that thou mayest go in peace The LORD be with thee as he hath been with my father

  • Jeremiah 20:15 - Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father saying is born child A man

  • Numbers 20:15 - went down How our fathers and the Egyptians and we have dwelt and the Egyptians time a long vexed and the Egyptians How our fathers

  • 2 Kings 20:17 - Behold the days come shall be carried that all that is in thine house have laid up in store and that which thy fathers Behold the days into Babylon shall be left nothing saith the LORD

  • Leviticus 20:17 - And if a man shall take his sister daughter his father's or daughter his mother's and see her nakedness and see her nakedness it is a wicked thing and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people her nakedness his sister he hath uncovered his iniquity he shall bear

  • Ezekiel 20:18 - But I said unto their children in the wilderness ye not in the statutes of your fathers their judgments neither observe yourselves with their idols nor defile

  • Leviticus 20:19 - the nakedness sister of thy mother's sister nor of thy father's And thou shalt not uncover his near kin for he uncovereth their iniquity they shall bear

  • Proverbs 20:20 - Whoso curseth his father or his mother shall be put out his lamp in obscure darkness

  • 2 Kings 20:21 - slept And Hezekiah with his fathers reigned and Manasseh his son

  • Ezekiel 20:24 - my judgments Because they had not executed my statutes but had despised my sabbaths and had polluted were after idols their fathers and their eyes

  • Ezekiel 20:27 - speak unto the house of Israel Therefore son of man and say and say the Lord GOD have blasphemed Yet in this your fathers a trespass me in that they have committed

  • Ezekiel 20:30 - Thus saith unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD after the manner of your fathers Are ye polluted after their abominations and commit ye whoredom

  • 1 Samuel 20:32 - answered And Jonathan Saul his father and said unto him Wherefore shall he be slain what hath he done

  • 2 Chronicles 20:32 - in the way his father of Asa and departed not from it doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 20:33 - cast And Saul a javelin at him to smite knew him whereby Jonathan that it was determined of his father to slay David

  • 2 Chronicles 20:33 - Howbeit the high places were not taken away for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers

  • 1 Kings 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him The cities took as my father as my father I will restore streets and thou shalt make for thee in Damascus and thou shalt make as my father in Samaria a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away So he made a covenant Then said Ahab I will send thee away

  • 1 Samuel 20:34 - arose So Jonathan from the table in fierce anger and did eat day of the month the second no meat for he was grieved for David had done him shame because his father

  • Ezekiel 20:36 - Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt Like as I pleaded with you saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 20:42 - And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I shall bring you into the land of Israel into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 21:1 - slept Now Jehoshaphat with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David reigned And Jehoram his son

  • Joshua 21:1 - Then came near and unto the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest and unto Joshua of the children of Nun and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel

  • Leviticus 21:2 - But for his kin that is near unto him that is for his mother and for his father and for his son and for his daughter and for his brother

  • 1 Kings 21:3 - said And Naboth to Ahab forbid The LORD it me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 21:3 - gave And their father gifts them great of silver and of gold and of precious things cities with fenced in Judah but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram because he was the firstborn

  • 2 Kings 21:3 - again For he built up the high places had destroyed which Hezekiah his father and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove and made Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the host of heaven and served

  • 1 Kings 21:4 - came And Ahab into his house heavy and displeased because of the word had spoken which Naboth the Jezreelite to him for he had said I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers And he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face and would eat no bread

  • 2 Chronicles 21:4 - was risen up Now when Jehoram to the kingdom of his father he strengthened himself and slew all his brethren with the sword and divers also of the princes of Israel

  • 2 Kings 21:8 - any more move Neither will I make the feet of Israel out of the land which I gave their fathers only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them and according to all the law according to all that I have commanded that my servant Moses

  • Leviticus 21:9 - And the daughter of any priest if she profane herself by playing the whore her father if she profane with fire she shall be burnt

  • 2 Chronicles 21:10 - revolt So the Edomites from under his hand of Judah unto this day revolt also did Libnah The same time from under his hand because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers

  • Joshua 21:11 - And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak which city is Hebron in the hill country of Judah with the suburbs thereof round about

  • Leviticus 21:11 - body to any dead Neither shall he go in himself for his father or for his mother nor defile

  • 2 Chronicles 21:12 - And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet Thus saith Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father in the ways of Asa king of Judah

  • Deuteronomy 21:13 - And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her and shall remain in thine house and bewail her father and her mother month a full and after that thou shalt go and she shall be thy wife

  • 2 Chronicles 21:13 - in the way of the kings of Israel like to the whoredoms and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem like to the whoredoms house of Ahab thy brethren house of thy father's which were better and also hast slain

  • 2 Samuel 21:14 - buried And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son for the land of Benjamin in Zelah in the sepulchre of Kish his father and they performed commanded all that the king was intreated that God for the land And after

  • Exodus 21:15 - And he that smiteth his father or his mother put to death put to death

  • 2 Kings 21:15 - Because they have done that which was evil in my sight me to anger and have provoked even unto this day came forth their fathers out of Egypt even unto this day

  • Exodus 21:17 - And he that curseth his father or his mother be put to death be put to death

  • 1 Chronicles 21:17 - Is it not I that commanded And David my God Is it not I that commanded to be numbered but not on thy people even I it is that have sinned and done evil and done evil but as for these sheep what have they done I pray thee O LORD my God let thine hand house be on me and on my father's but not on thy people that they should be plagued

  • Deuteronomy 21:18 - If a man son have a stubborn and rebellious him will not hearken or the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastened him will not hearken

  • 2 Kings 21:18 - slept And Manasseh with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house in the garden of Uzza reigned and Amon his son

  • Deuteronomy 21:19 - lay hold Then shall his father and his mother on him and bring him out unto the elders of his city and unto the gate of his place

  • 2 Chronicles 21:19 - And it came to pass that in process of time And it came to pass that in process of time after the end And it came to pass that in process of time of two after his bowels by reason of his sickness so he died diseases of sore made And his people for him like the burning for him like the burning of his fathers

  • 2 Kings 21:20 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD And he did Manasseh as his father

  • 2 Kings 21:21 - walked in in all the way walked in that his father and served the idols and served that his father and worshipped

  • 2 Kings 21:22 - And he forsook of the LORD God of his fathers and walked not in the way of the LORD

  • 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

  • Joshua 21:43 - gave And the LORD unto Israel all the land which he sware gave unto their fathers and they possessed it and dwelt

  • Joshua 21:44 - gave them rest And the LORD round about according to all that he sware unto their fathers and there stood not a man before all their enemies all their enemies delivered And the LORD into their hand

  • 1 Samuel 22:1 - David thence and escaped to the cave Adullam heard and when his brethren house and all his father's it they went down

  • 2 Kings 22:2 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD in all the way of David his father and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left

  • 1 Samuel 22:3 - And David thence to Mizpeh of Moab and he said unto the king of Moab I pray thee come forth Let my father and my mother and be with you till I know will do what God

  • 2 Chronicles 22:4 - Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction

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

  • Ezekiel 22:7 - by father and mother In thee have they set light with the stranger of thee have they dealt by oppression in the midst the fatherless and the widow in thee have they vexed

  • Genesis 22:7 - And he said And Isaac unto Abraham My father And he said My father And he said Here am I my son And he said Behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering

  • Ezekiel 22:10 - nakedness their fathers In thee have they discovered for pollution her that was set apart in thee have they humbled

  • 1 Chronicles 22:10 - He shall build an house for my name and he shall be my son and I will be his father and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever

  • Ezekiel 22:11 - And one wife with his neighbour's hath committed abomination And one his daughter in law defiled hath lewdly And one his sister daughter his father's in thee hath humbled

  • 1 Samuel 22:11 - sent Then the king to call Ahimelech the son of Ahitub the priest house and all his father's the priest that were in Nob and they came Then the king

  • Jeremiah 22:11 - For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son instead of Josiah king of Judah which reigned instead of Josiah his father which went forth out of this place He shall not return

  • 2 Kings 22:13 - ye enquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that is found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled have not hearkened against us because our fathers concerning the words of this book to do according unto all that which is written

  • Leviticus 22:13 - daughter But if the priest's be a widow or divorced and have no child and is returned house of her father's as in her youth meat of her father's eat but there shall no stranger eat

  • Joshua 22:14 - And with him ten chief chief of each chief of each house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel and each one was an head house a prince among the thousands of Israel

  • Deuteronomy 22:15 - take Then shall the father of the damsel and her mother and bring forth virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate

  • 1 Samuel 22:15 - Did I then begin to enquire to enquire of God for him be it far from me impute let not the king for thy servant any thing nor to all the house of my father knew for thy servant any thing of all this less or more

  • Jeremiah 22:15 - Shalt thou reign because thou closest thyself in cedar did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice and then it was well

  • Deuteronomy 22:16 - shall say father And the damsel's unto the elders my daughter I gave unto this man to wife and he hateth

  • 1 Samuel 22:16 - said And the king Thou shalt surely Thou shalt surely Ahimelech house thou and all thy father's

  • Exodus 22:17 - refuse refuse If her father to give money her unto him he shall pay according to the dowry of virgins

  • Deuteronomy 22:19 - And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel because he hath brought up name an evil upon a virgin of Israel and she shall be his wife he may not put her away all his days

  • 2 Kings 22:20 - Behold therefore I will gather thee unto thy fathers Behold therefore I will gather into thy grave in peace shall not see and thine eyes all the evil which I will bring upon this place And they brought the king word

  • Deuteronomy 22:21 - Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door house in her father's shall stone of her city her with stones that she die because she hath wrought folly in Israel to play the whore house in her father's away evil from among

  • Genesis 22:21 - Huz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram

  • Isaiah 22:21 - And I will clothe him with thy robe him with thy girdle and strengthen thy government and I will commit into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah

  • 1 Samuel 22:22 - said And David unto Abiathar I knew it that day when Doeg the Edomite tell tell Saul I have occasioned the death of all the persons house of thy father's

  • Isaiah 22:23 - And I will fasten him as a nail place in a sure throne and he shall be for a glorious house to his father's

  • Isaiah 22:24 - And they shall hang upon him all the glory house of his father's the offspring and the issue all vessels of small all vessels of cups all vessels of flagons

  • Joshua 22:28 - Therefore said Therefore said to us or to our generations in time to come Therefore said again Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD made which our fathers not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices but it is a witness

  • Proverbs 22:28 - Remove landmark not the ancient have set which thy fathers

  • Deuteronomy 22:29 - with her shall give Then the man that lay father unto the damsel's fifty shekels of silver and she shall be his wife because he hath humbled her he may not put her away all his days

  • Deuteronomy 22:30 - shall not take A man wife his father's nor discover skirt his father's

  • 2 Chronicles 23:2 - And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities in Judah and the chief of the fathers of Israel and they came to Jerusalem

  • 1 Chronicles 23:9 - The sons of Shimei and Haziel and Haran three These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan

  • 1 Chronicles 23:11 - And Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons house according to their father's reckoning therefore they were in one

  • 1 Samuel 23:17 - And he said unto him Fear shall not find not for the hand of Saul my father thee and thou shalt be king over Israel and I shall be next of Saul my father knoweth

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

  • 1 Chronicles 23:24 - These were the sons of Levi after the house of the fathers even the chief of the fathers as they were counted by number of names by their polls that did the work for the service after the house of the LORD These were the sons of twenty years and upward

  • 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

  • Jeremiah 23:27 - Which think have forgotten to cause my people my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour have forgotten as their fathers my name for Baal

  • 2 Kings 23:30 - carried him in a chariot And his servants dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own sepulchre took And the people of the land Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his father's

  • 2 Kings 23:32 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD And he did according to all that his fathers

  • 2 Kings 23:34 - king And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son in the room of Josiah in the room of Josiah his father and turned his name to Jehoiakim Jehoahaz and took and he came to Egypt and died

  • 2 Kings 23:37 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD And he did according to all that his fathers

  • Jeremiah 23:39 - forget Therefore behold I even I will utterly you and I will forsake you and the city that I gave you and your fathers and cast you out of my presence

  • 1 Chronicles 24:2 - died But Nadab and Abihu before their father and had no children executed the priest's office therefore Eleazar and Ithamar