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)


  • Joshua 24:2 - Thus saith And Joshua unto all the people Thus saith the LORD God of Israel on the other side of the flood dwelt Your fathers in old time even Terah Your fathers of Abraham Your fathers of Nachor and they served God other

  • Joshua 24:3 - And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac

  • 1 Chronicles 24:4 - found Among the sons of Eleazar And there were more chief men Among the sons of Ithamar and thus were they divided Among the sons of Eleazar chief according to the house of their fathers there were sixteen Among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers and eight

  • 1 Chronicles 24:6 - wrote And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe and Levites them before the king and the princes and Zadok of the priests and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites household of the fathers one and one taken for Eleazar and one taken and one taken for Ithamar

  • 2 Kings 24:6 - slept So Jehoiakim with his fathers reigned and Jehoiachin his son

  • Joshua 24:6 - And I brought your fathers and the Egyptians and ye came sea pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen sea unto the Red

  • Genesis 24:7 - The LORD God of heaven and thou shalt take house from my father's and from the land of my kindred and which spake unto me and that sware unto me saying Unto thy seed will I give and from the land he shall send his angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son

  • 2 Kings 24:9 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD And he did according to all that his father

  • Jeremiah 24:10 - And I will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers

  • 1 Samuel 24:11 - Moreover my father see see the skirt of thy robe in mine hand for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not know see in mine hand that there is neither evil nor transgression and I have not sinned against thee yet thou huntest my soul to take

  • Joshua 24:14 - Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods and serve which your fathers on the other side of the flood and in Egypt and serve the LORD

  • Joshua 24:15 - whom served the LORD choose you this day unto you served or the gods served which your fathers that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the Amorites ye dwell in whose land but as for me and my house served the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 24:16 - be put to death The fathers for the children for the children be put to death The fathers every man for his own sin be put to death

  • 2 Samuel 24:17 - and said And David unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people and said Lo I have sinned and I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done let thine hand house I pray thee be against me and against my father's

  • Joshua 24:17 - For the LORD our God he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage and which did in our sight signs those great and preserved us in all the way wherein we went and among all the people whom we passed through

  • 2 Chronicles 24:18 - And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers and served groves and idols and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass

  • 1 Chronicles 24:19 - These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house as the LORD according to their manner under Aaron their father had commanded as the LORD God of Israel

  • 1 Samuel 24:21 - Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD that thou wilt not cut off my seed after that thou wilt not me and that thou wilt not destroy my name house out of my father's

  • 2 Chronicles 24:22 - remembered Thus Joash the king not the kindness had done which Jehoiada his father to him but slew his son he said look The LORD upon it and require

  • Genesis 24:23 - And said daughter Whose art thou tell me I pray thee is there house in thy father's room for us to lodge in

  • 2 Chronicles 24:24 - with a small company of men came For the army of the Syrians and the LORD delivered into their hand For the army great a very because they had forsaken and the LORD God of their fathers against Joash So they executed judgment

  • 1 Chronicles 24:30 - The sons also of Mushi Mahli and Eder and Jerimoth The sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers

  • 1 Chronicles 24:31 - These likewise cast lots over against brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king and Zadok and Ahimelech and the chief fathers of the priests and Levites fathers and the chief over against brethren their younger

  • Joshua 24:32 - And the bones of Joseph brought up of the children of Israel out of Egypt buried of Shechem in a parcel of ground bought which Jacob of the children of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver of the children of Joseph and it became the inheritance

  • Genesis 24:38 - But house unto my father's and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son

  • Genesis 24:40 - And he said unto me The LORD whom I walk before will send his angel with thee and prosper thy way and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred house and of my father's

  • 1 Chronicles 25:3 - Jeduthun the sons Jeduthun Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah Hashabiah and Mattithiah six under the hands of their father Jeduthun with a harp who prophesied to give thanks and to praise the LORD

  • 2 Chronicles 25:3 - was established Now it came to pass when the kingdom to him that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father

  • 2 Chronicles 25:4 - for the children But he slew but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses commanded where the LORD saying But he slew The fathers for the children for the children But he slew The fathers but every man for his own sin But he slew

  • 2 Chronicles 25:5 - gathered Moreover Amaziah Judah and made according to the houses of their fathers and captains over thousands and captains hundred Judah and Benjamin and he numbered old them from twenty years and above and found them three hundred over thousands choice men able to go forth to war that could handle spear and shield

  • Jeremiah 25:5 - They said Turn ye again now every one way from his evil and from the evil of your doings and dwell in the land hath given that the LORD unto you and to your fathers and ever for and ever

  • 1 Chronicles 25:6 - All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD with cymbals psalteries and harps for the service in the house of God All these were under the hands according to the king's to Asaph Jeduthun and Heman

  • Numbers 25:14 - Now the name of the Israelite even that was slain even that was slain with the Midianitish woman was Zimri the son of Salu a prince house of a chief among the Simeonites

  • Numbers 25:15 - And the name woman that was slain of the Midianitish was Cozbi the daughter of Zur he was head over a people house and of a chief in Midian

  • 2 Chronicles 25:28 - And they brought him upon horses and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah

  • Leviticus 25:41 - And then shall he depart from thee both he and his children shall he return unto his own family and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return

  • 2 Chronicles 26:1 - took Then all the people of Judah Uzziah old who was sixteen years and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah

  • 2 Chronicles 26:2 - He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after slept that the king with his fathers

  • Numbers 26:2 - Take the sum of all the congregation of the children in Israel of the children from twenty years and upward house throughout their fathers all that are able to go to war in Israel

  • Deuteronomy 26:3 - And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days and say unto him I profess that shall be in those days unto the LORD thy God And thou shalt go unto the country sware unto the LORD unto our fathers for to give

  • Genesis 26:3 - Sojourn countries and I will be with thee and will bless thee for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give countries all these and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father

  • 2 Chronicles 26:4 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD And he did Amaziah according to all that his father

  • Deuteronomy 26:5 - And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God A Syrian ready to perish was my father and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few and became there a nation great mighty and populous

  • 1 Chronicles 26:6 - Also unto Shemaiah his son born his son that ruled throughout the house of their father for they were mighty men of valour

  • Deuteronomy 26:7 - And when we cried the LORD God of our fathers heard the LORD our voice and looked on our affliction and our labour and our oppression

  • 1 Chronicles 26:10 - Also Hosah had sons of Merari had sons Simri him the chief for though he was not the firstborn made yet his father him the chief

  • 2 Chronicles 26:12 - The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred

  • 1 Chronicles 26:13 - And they cast lots as well the small as the great according to the house of their fathers for every gate for every gate

  • Deuteronomy 26:15 - Look down habitation from thy holy from heaven and bless thy people Israel and the land which thou hast given us as thou swarest unto our fathers a land that floweth with milk and honey

  • Genesis 26:15 - For all the wells had digged servants his father in the days of Abraham his father had stopped the Philistines them and filled them with earth

  • Genesis 26:18 - again And Isaac digged the wells of water by which digged in the days of Abraham his father had stopped for the Philistines them after the death of Abraham and he called after the names after the names by which and he called his father

  • 1 Chronicles 26:21 - As concerning the sons Laadan As concerning the sons of the Gershonite Laadan chief fathers Laadan of the Gershonite were Jehieli

  • 2 Chronicles 26:23 - slept So Uzziah him with his fathers and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings for they said He is a leper reigned and Jotham his son

  • Genesis 26:24 - appeared And the LORD unto him the same night and said I am the God Abraham's thy father fear not for I am with thee and will bless thee and multiply thy seed Abraham's for my servant

  • 1 Chronicles 26:26 - Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things had dedicated which David the king and the chief fathers and the captains over thousands and hundreds and the captains of the host

  • 1 Chronicles 26:31 - Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief Among the Hebronites according to the generations of his fathers year In the fortieth of the reign of David they were sought for and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead

  • 1 Chronicles 26:32 - And his brethren men of valour were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers made rulers David of the king over the Reubenites the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh and affairs pertaining to God and affairs of the king

  • Leviticus 26:39 - And they that are left of you shall pine away and also in the iniquities ' lands in your enemies and also in the iniquities of their fathers of you shall pine away

  • Leviticus 26:40 - If they shall confess and the iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespass which they trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary

  • Numbers 26:55 - by lot shall be divided Notwithstanding the land according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit

  • 1 Chronicles 27:1 - Now the children of Israel after their number to wit the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds and their officers that served the king in any matter course which came in and went out by month by month by month of the year course of every were twenty and four of thousands

  • 2 Chronicles 27:2 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD And he did Uzziah according to all that his father howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD And the people did yet corruptly

  • Deuteronomy 27:3 - And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law when thou art passed over that thou mayest go in thee a land as the LORD God giveth thee a land that floweth with milk and honey hath promised as the LORD God of thy fathers

  • Numbers 27:3 - Our father but died in the wilderness and he was not in in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah in his own sin but died and had no sons

  • Numbers 27:4 - be done away Why should the name of our father among his family because he hath no son Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father

  • Genesis 27:6 - And Rebekah saying unto Jacob her son saying Behold I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother saying

  • Numbers 27:7 - right The daughters of Zelophehad speak give give them a possession and thou shalt cause the inheritance among brethren of their father to pass and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father

  • Genesis 27:9 - now to the flock and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats good and I will make them savoury meat for thy father such as he loveth

  • 2 Chronicles 27:9 - slept And Jotham with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David reigned and Ahaz his son

  • Genesis 27:10 - And thou shalt bring it to thy father that he may eat and that he may bless thee before his death

  • Numbers 27:10 - And if he have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance And if he have no brethren unto his father's

  • 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

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

  • Numbers 27:11 - have no brethren And if his father then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family and he shall possess it and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment commanded as the LORD Moses

  • Genesis 27:12 - peradventure will feel My father me and I shall seem to him as a deceiver and I shall bring a curse upon me and not a blessing

  • Genesis 27:14 - and fetched and brought and his mother made and his mother savoury meat loved such as his father

  • Deuteronomy 27:16 - Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother shall say And all the people Amen

  • Genesis 27:18 - And he came My father and he said My father and he said Here am I who art thou my son

  • Genesis 27:19 - said And Jacob unto his father I am Esau thy firstborn I have done according as thou badest me arise I pray thee sit and eat of my venison may bless that thy soul

  • Deuteronomy 27:20 - Cursed be he that lieth wife his father's because he uncovereth skirt his father's shall say And all the people Amen

  • Deuteronomy 27:22 - Cursed be he that lieth with his sister or the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother shall say And all the people Amen

  • Genesis 27:22 - went near And Jacob unto Isaac his father and he felt him and said The voice The voice And Jacob are the hands are the hands of Esau

  • Genesis 27:26 - said Isaac And his father unto him Come near now and kiss me my son

  • Genesis 27:30 - had made an end And it came to pass as soon as Isaac of blessing Jacob was yet gone out gone out Jacob from the presence And it came to pass as soon as Isaac his father that Esau his brother came in from his hunting

  • Genesis 27:31 - And he also had made savoury meat and brought it Let my father and said Let my father arise Let my father and eat venison of his son's may bless that thy soul

  • Genesis 27:32 - said And Isaac his father said I am thy son thy firstborn Esau

  • Genesis 27:34 - heard And when Esau the words me even me also O my father he cried cry with a great bitter and exceeding and said me even me also O my father Bless me even me also O my father

  • Genesis 27:38 - said And Esau me even me also O my father blessing Hast thou but one me even me also O my father bless me even me also O my father lifted up And Esau his voice and wept

  • Genesis 27:39 - answered And Isaac his father and said shall be the fatness of the earth unto him Behold thy dwelling and of the dew of heaven from above

  • Genesis 27:41 - hated And Esau Jacob because of the blessing wherewith blessed him for my father said And Esau in his heart are at hand The days of mourning for my father then will I slay Jacob my brother

  • 2 Chronicles 28:1 - old was twenty years Ahaz and he reigned sixteen years and he reigned in Jerusalem but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD like David his father

  • Genesis 28:2 - Arise to Padanaram to the house of Bethuel father thy mother's and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban brother thy mother's

  • 1 Chronicles 28:4 - chose Howbeit the LORD God of Israel and of the house of my father to be king of Israel for ever Judah chose to be the ruler and of the house Judah and of the house of my father and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king of Israel

  • 1 Chronicles 28:6 - And he said unto me Solomon him to be my son he shall build my house and my courts for I have chosen him to be my son and I will be his father

  • 2 Chronicles 28:6 - slew For Pekah men of Remaliah in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand day in one men which were all valiant because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers

  • Genesis 28:7 - obeyed And that Jacob his father and his mother to Padanaram

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

  • Genesis 28:8 - seeing And Esau not that the daughters of Canaan pleased Isaac his father

  • 1 Chronicles 28:9 - And thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy father and serve heart him with a perfect mind and with a willing all hearts if thou seek for the LORD all the imaginations of the thoughts and understandeth if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever

  • 2 Chronicles 28:9 - But a prophet of the LORD was Oded was there whose name and he went out before the host that came to Samaria and said was wroth of the LORD God of your fathers with Judah he hath delivered them into your hand and ye have slain them in a rage unto heaven that reacheth up