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)


  • Deuteronomy 28:11 - shall make thee plenteous And the LORD in goods and in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit in the land in the land sware And the LORD unto thy fathers to give

  • Genesis 28:13 - And behold the LORD stood above it and said And behold the LORD God of Abraham thy father God of Isaac the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed

  • Genesis 28:21 - So that I come again in peace house to my father's then shall the LORD be my God

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

  • 2 Chronicles 28:25 - And in every several city And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense God unto other and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 28:27 - slept And Ahaz with his fathers and they buried him in the city even in Jerusalem but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel reigned and Hezekiah his son

  • Deuteronomy 28:36 - The LORD thee and thy king which thou shalt set over thee unto a nation have known which neither thou nor thy fathers and there shalt thou serve gods other wood and stone

  • Deuteronomy 28:64 - shall scatter And the LORD thee among all people even unto the other of the earth even unto the other of the earth and there thou shalt serve gods other have known which neither thou nor thy fathers even wood and stone

  • 2 Chronicles 29:2 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD And he did according to all that David his father

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

  • 2 Chronicles 29:5 - And said unto them Hear me ye Levites now yourselves and sanctify now yourselves and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy

  • 1 Chronicles 29:6 - offered willingly Then the chief of the fathers Then the chief of the tribes of Israel Then the chief of thousands and of hundreds Then the chief work of the king's

  • 2 Chronicles 29:6 - have trespassed For our fathers and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God and have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs

  • Genesis 29:9 - And while he yet spake with them Rachel came sheep with her father's for she kept them

  • 2 Chronicles 29:9 - have fallen For lo our fathers by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity

  • 1 Chronicles 29:10 - Blessed Wherefore David be thou LORD before all the congregation said Wherefore David Blessed be thou LORD God of Israel our father and ever for and ever

  • Genesis 29:12 - and told And Jacob Rachel brother her father son and that he was Rebekah's and she ran and told her father

  • Deuteronomy 29:13 - That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God as he hath said unto thee and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob

  • 1 Chronicles 29:15 - For we are strangers before thee and sojourners as were all our fathers are as a shadow our days on the earth and there is none abiding

  • Job 29:16 - I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out

  • 1 Chronicles 29:18 - O LORD God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel our fathers keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people and prepare of the heart

  • 1 Chronicles 29:20 - said And David And all the congregation Now bless the LORD God Now bless And all the congregation the LORD God of their fathers and bowed down their heads and worshipped the LORD and the king

  • 1 Chronicles 29:23 - sat on Then Solomon the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father and prospered obeyed and all Israel

  • Deuteronomy 29:25 - Then men shall say Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt

  • Job 30:1 - than I have me in derision But now they that are younger I would have disdained whose fathers to have set with the dogs of my flock

  • Jeremiah 30:3 - For lo the days come saith the LORD and I will cause them to return the captivity of my people Israel and Judah saith the LORD and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers and they shall possess

  • Numbers 30:3 - If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD and bind herself by a bond house being in her father's in her youth

  • Numbers 30:4 - hear And her father at her then all her vows and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall hold his peace And her father shall stand at her then all her vows and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand

  • Deuteronomy 30:5 - will bring And the LORD thy God thee into the land and thou shalt possess thee above thy fathers and thou shalt possess it and he will do thee good and multiply thee above thy fathers

  • Numbers 30:5 - disallow But if her father her in the day that he heareth not any of her vows or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand and the LORD shall forgive disallow But if her father

  • 2 Chronicles 30:7 - And be not ye like your fathers and like your brethren which trespassed against the LORD God And be not ye like your fathers who therefore gave them up to desolation as ye see

  • 2 Chronicles 30:8 - Now be ye not stiffnecked as your fathers were but yield yourselves the LORD and enter into his sanctuary which he hath sanctified for ever and serve the LORD your God may turn away that the fierceness of his wrath

  • Deuteronomy 30:9 - will make thee plenteous And the LORD thy God in every work of thine hand and in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy land for good will again And the LORD as he rejoiced for good as he rejoiced over thy fathers

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

  • Numbers 30:16 - These are the statutes commanded which the LORD Moses between a man and his wife between the father and his daughter being yet in her youth house between the father

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 30:19 - his heart That prepareth to seek God the LORD God of his fathers though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary

  • Deuteronomy 30:20 - That thou mayest love the LORD thy God and that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life and the length of thy days that thou mayest dwell in the land sware the LORD unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give

  • 2 Chronicles 30:22 - spake And Hezekiah comfortably unto all the Levites knowledge that taught the good of the LORD and they did eat throughout the feast seven days offering offerings peace and making confession of the LORD God of their fathers

  • Genesis 31:1 - And he heard the words sons of Laban's saying hath taken away Jacob all that was our father's all that was our father's hath he gotten all this glory

  • Genesis 31:3 - said And the LORD unto Jacob Return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred

  • Genesis 31:5 - And said unto them I see countenance of my father that it is not toward me as before but the God of my father hath been

  • Genesis 31:6 - And ye know that with all my power I have served your father

  • Deuteronomy 31:7 - called And Moses unto Joshua and said unto him in the sight of all Israel Be strong and of a good courage for thou must go with this people unto the land hath sworn which the LORD unto their fathers to give them and thou shalt cause them to inherit

  • Genesis 31:7 - And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times suffered him but God not to hurt me

  • Genesis 31:9 - hath taken away Thus God the cattle of your father and given

  • Jeremiah 31:9 - with weeping They shall come and with supplications will I lead by the rivers of waters way in a straight wherein they shall not stumble to Israel for I am a father and Ephraim is my firstborn

  • Genesis 31:14 - answered And Rachel and Leah and said unto him Is there yet any portion or inheritance house for us in our father's

  • Deuteronomy 31:16 - said And the LORD unto Moses Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers will rise up and this people and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to be among them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made

  • Genesis 31:16 - For all the riches hath taken now then whatsoever God from our father that is ours and our children's hath said now then whatsoever God unto thee do

  • 2 Chronicles 31:17 - Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers and the Levites old from twenty years and upward in their charges by their courses

  • Genesis 31:18 - And he carried away all his cattle and all his goods which he had gotten all his cattle of his getting which he had gotten in Padanaram for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan

  • Job 31:18 - For from my youth he was brought up with me as with a father womb her from my mother's and I have guided

  • Genesis 31:19 - And Laban went to shear his sheep had stolen and Rachel the images that were her father's

  • Deuteronomy 31:20 - For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that floweth with milk and honey and they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat then will they turn gods unto other and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant

  • Numbers 31:26 - Take and the chief of the prey that was taken both of man and of beast thou and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation

  • Genesis 31:29 - It is in the power of my hand to do or bad but the God of your father unto me yesternight saying saying Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad

  • Jeremiah 31:29 - In those days they shall say no more The fathers have eaten a sour grape teeth and the children's are set on edge

  • Genesis 31:30 - And now though thou wouldest needs And now though thou wouldest needs because thou sore because thou sore house after thy father's yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods

  • Jeremiah 31:32 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt they brake Not according to the covenant although I was an husband unto them saith the LORD

  • Genesis 31:35 - And she said to her father Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is upon me And he searched but found not the images

  • Genesis 31:42 - Except God of my father God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac now empty had been with me surely thou hadst sent me away mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath seen God and rebuked thee yesternight

  • Genesis 31:53 - The God of Abraham The God of Nahor judge The God of his father sware betwixt us And Jacob by the fear of his father Isaac

  • Deuteronomy 32:6 - the LORD the LORD Do ye thus requite people O foolish and unwise is not he thy father that hath bought thee hath he not made thee and established

  • Deuteronomy 32:7 - Remember the days of old consider the years generations generations ask thy father and he will shew thee thy elders and they will tell

  • Numbers 32:8 - Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land

  • Genesis 32:9 - said And Jacob O God of my father Abraham O God of my father Isaac the LORD said unto me Return unto thy country and to thy kindred and I will deal well

  • 2 Chronicles 32:13 - Know have done ye not what I and my fathers unto all the people of other lands able were the gods of the nations of other lands to deliver of other lands out of mine hand

  • 2 Chronicles 32:14 - Who was there among all the gods of those nations utterly destroyed that my fathers should be able deliver his people out of mine hand should be able Who was there among all the gods deliver out of mine hand

  • Numbers 32:14 - And behold ye are risen up in your fathers stead an increase men of sinful to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 32:15 - deceive Hezekiah you nor persuade you on this manner neither yet believe Now therefore let not was able him for no god of any nation or kingdom deliver his people and out of the hand and out of the hand of my fathers how much less shall your God Now therefore let not deliver and out of the hand

  • Deuteronomy 32:17 - They sacrificed unto devils not to God to gods whom they knew not to new newly gods that came feared whom your fathers

  • Jeremiah 32:18 - Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after God them the Great the Mighty the LORD of hosts is his name

  • Jeremiah 32:22 - And hast given them a land which thou didst swear to their fathers And hast given them a land flowing with milk and honey

  • Numbers 32:28 - commanded So concerning them Moses Eleazar the priest and Joshua of the children of Nun and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 32:33 - slept And Hezekiah with his fathers and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres his son of David honour did him at his death and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem reigned And Manasseh his son

  • 2 Chronicles 33:3 - again For he built the high places had broken down which Hezekiah his father and he reared up altars for Baalim and made groves and worshipped all the host of heaven and served

  • 2 Chronicles 33:8 - Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses

  • Deuteronomy 33:9 - Who said unto his father and to his mother I have not seen his brethren him neither did he acknowledge his own children nor knew for they have observed thy word thy covenant and kept

  • 2 Chronicles 33:12 - And when he was in affliction he besought before the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before his God of his fathers

  • Genesis 33:19 - And he bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent at the hand of the children of Hamor father for an hundred pieces of money

  • 2 Chronicles 33:20 - slept So Manasseh with his fathers and they buried him in his own house reigned and Amon his son

  • 2 Chronicles 33:22 - But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD But he did Manasseh his father unto all the carved images But he did Manasseh his father sacrificed for Amon and served

  • 2 Chronicles 33:23 - And humbled not himself before the LORD And humbled as Manasseh his father himself but Amon more and more trespassed

  • Numbers 33:54 - And ye shall divide the land by lot among your families and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance falleth by lot according to the tribes of your fathers And ye shall divide

  • 2 Chronicles 34:2 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD in the ways of David his father and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left

  • 2 Chronicles 34:3 - For in the eighth year of his reign while he was yet young he began to seek after the God of David his father and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the carved images and the molten images

  • Genesis 34:4 - saying Hamor unto his father saying Get me this damsel to wife

  • Jeremiah 34:5 - in peace But thou shalt die and with the burnings of thy fathers kings the former which were before thee so shall they burn thee saying Ah lord odours for thee and they will lament the word for I have pronounced saith the LORD

  • Genesis 34:6 - went out And Hamor the father unto Jacob to commune with

  • Exodus 34:7 - Keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means and that will by no means the guilty visiting iniquity of the fathers and upon the children's and upon the children's and upon the children's children unto the third and to the fourth

  • Genesis 34:11 - and what ye shall say unto her father and unto her brethren Let me find grace in your eyes and what ye shall say unto me I will give

  • Genesis 34:13 - answered And the sons of Jacob and Hamor his father deceitfully and said because he had defiled Dinah their sister

  • Jeremiah 34:13 - Thus saith the LORD the God of Israel I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondmen Thus saith

  • Jeremiah 34:14 - At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served thee six years let ye go free hearkened from thee but your fathers not unto me neither inclined their ear

  • Numbers 34:14 - have received For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers For the tribe of the children according to the house of their fathers their inheritance and half For the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance

  • Genesis 34:19 - deferred And the young man not to do the thing because he had delight daughter in Jacob's and he was more honourable than all the house of his father

  • 2 Chronicles 34:21 - enquire of the LORD for me and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah concerning the words in this book that is found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out have not kept upon us because our fathers concerning the words of the LORD to do after all that is written in this book

  • 2 Chronicles 34:28 - Behold I will gather thee to thy fathers Behold I will gather to thy grave in peace see neither shall thine eyes all the evil that I will bring upon this place and upon the inhabitants again the king word

  • 2 Chronicles 34:32 - to stand And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin did to it And the inhabitants in Jerusalem according to the covenant of God of God of their fathers