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Lexicon :: Strong's H1 - 'āḇ

Aa
אָב
Transliteration
'āḇ
Pronunciation
awb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A root
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TWOT Reference: 4a

Strong’s Definitions

אָב ʼâb, awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application:—chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,215x

The KJV translates Strong's H1 in the following manner: father (1,205x), chief (2x), families (2x), desire (1x), fatherless (with H369) (1x), forefathers (with H7223) (1x), patrimony (1x), prince (1x), principal (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,215x
The KJV translates Strong's H1 in the following manner: father (1,205x), chief (2x), families (2x), desire (1x), fatherless (with H369) (1x), forefathers (with H7223) (1x), patrimony (1x), prince (1x), principal (1x).
  1. father of an individual

  2. of God as father of his people

  3. head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan

  4. ancestor

    1. grandfather, forefathers — of person

    2. of people

  5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art

  6. of producer, generator (fig.)

  7. of benevolence and protection (fig.)

  8. term of respect and honour

  9. ruler or chief (spec.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָב ʼâb, awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application:—chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
STRONGS H1: Abbreviations
אָב 1191 noun masculine father (Phoenician אב, Assyrian abu, Arabic أَبً, Sabean אב CISiv, 1, 37 1. 2 and others, Ethiopic አብ፡ Aramaic אַבָּא, axBAf  — absolute אָב Genesis 44:19 + 47 times; construct אַב Genesis 17:4, 5; (compare in אַבְרָהָם ib. & elsewhere in proper names. On Hal's proposed אֲבִר see אברהם); אֲבִי (compare Ge§§ 90, 3b, 96) Genesis 4:20 +; suffix אָבִי Genesis 19:34 + (MI אבי); אָבִיךָ Genesis 12:1 +; אָבִיו Genesis 2:24 +; אָבִ֫יהוּ Judges 14:10 + 6 times; plural אָבוֺת Exodus 12:3 +; construct אֲבוֺת Exodus 6:25 + 7 times; suffix אֲבוֺתַי (אֲבֹתַי, אֲבוֺתָ֑י) Genesis 47:9 + 15 times; אֲבוֺתֵיהֶם 1 Chronicles 4:38 + 32 times (late); אֲבוֺתָם Exodus 4:5 + 106 times etc.;
1. father of individual Genesis 2:24 (+ אֵם) Genesis 11:28, 29 (twice in verse); Genesis 19:31, 32, 33, + often (mostly J E D); of father as commanding Genesis 50:16 (J) Jeremiah 35:6f, Proverbs 6:20 (compare Genesis 18:19; J Genesis 28:1, 6 P 1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Kings 2:1); instructing מוסר Proverbs 1:8; Proverbs 4:1 (compare Deuteronomy 8:5); specifically as begetter, genitor Proverbs 23:22; Zechariah 13:3 (twice in verse) (+ אֵם) Isaiah 45:10; compare Genesis 49:4 (J) Leviticus 18:7, 8, 11 (P); rebuking Genesis 37:10; loving Genesis 37:4; Genesis 44:20 (JE; compare Genesis 22:2; Genesis 25:28; Genesis 37:3; 2 Samuel 14:1); pitying Psalm 103:13 (in simile compare 2 Samuel 18:5); blessing Genesis 27:41 (JE compare Genesis 27:4; also Genesis 28:1 P +); as glad Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 15:20; compare Proverbs 29:3; grieving Genesis 37:35 (JE; compare 2 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 19:1; 2 Samuel 19:2f) etc. Also as object of honour, obedience, love Exodus 20:12 (E)=Deuteronomy 5:16; Exodus 21:15, 17 (E) Deuteronomy 21:18, 19; Genesis 28:7 (P) 1 Kings 19:20 (all + אֵם), Genesis 50:1; Genesis 50:5 (J) Malachi 1:6 etc. Hence metaphor of intimate connection Job 17:14 to corruption I cry, My father art thou (|| אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָֽרִמָּה).
2. of God as father of his people (see RSSem 42), who constituted, controls, guides and lovingly watches over it: Deuteronomy 32:6; Jeremiah 3:4, 19; Jeremiah 31:9; Isaiah 63:16 (twice in verse); Isaiah 64:7; Malachi 1:6; Malachi 2:10 (compare Exodus 4:22; Exodus 19:4 (JE) Deuteronomy 32:11; Hosea 11:1); compare Jeremiah 2:27 (of idolatrous Israel) אֹמְרִים לָעֵץ אָבִי אַתָּה וְלָאֶבֶן אַתְּ ילדתני׃; especially God as father of Davidic line 2 Samuel 7:14; Psalm 89:27; f. of needy (late) Psalm 68:6 (compare Psalm 103:13) (in proper name, father of individual, compare below)
3. head of household, family or clan; בֵּית אָבִי as abode Genesis 38:11 (twice in verse); Leviticus 22:13 +; = family Genesis 24:40 (|| מִשְׁפַּחְתִּי) Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:31Numbers 18:1, 2; Joshua 2:12, 18; Joshua 6:25; especially techn. of divisions of Israel לְמִשְׁפָּחוֹת אָב בֵּית Numbers 3:30, 35 = a father's house, i.e. a family or clan; more often plural (אבותם, אבותיו) בֵית אָבוֺת = father's houses = families, clans (compare Di on Exodus 6:14) Exodus 6:14; Exodus 12:3; Numbers 1:2, 18 ff (often in Numbers) Joshua 14:1; Joshua 19:51; Joshua 21:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 22:14 (twice in verse) (always P in Hexateuch); also 1 Chronicles 5:13, 15 + often in Chronicles; compare רָאשֵׁי אבות הלוים (= 'בית א 'ר) Exodus 6:25 compare 1 Kings 8:1; 1 Chronicles 6:4; 1 Chronicles 7:11 — Ezra Nehemiah.
4. ancestor
(a) of individual; grandfather (instead of precise term) Genesis 28:13; Genesis 31:10 [Genesis 32:9] (J; where used by Jacob of Abraham & then of Isaac); greatgrandfather 1 Kings 15:13; great-greatgrandfather 1 Kings 15:11 etc.; oft plural (= fathers, forefathers) Genesis 15:15; Genesis 46:34 (JE) 1 Kings 19:4; 1 Kings 21:3, 4; 2 Kings 19:12; 2 Kings 20:17 +; particularly שׁכב עם אבותיו 1 Kings 1:21; 1 Kings 2:10; 1 Kings 11:21; 1 Kings 22:40 +; joined with ויקבר עם אב׳ 1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:24; 1 Kings 22:51; 2 Kings 8:24; 2 Kings 15:38 compare 2 Kings 15:7, 2 Kings 16:20 + (all of kings of Judah); intensive, אֲבֹתֶיךָ וַאֲבוֺת אֲבֹתֶיךָ Exodus 10:6 compare Daniel 11:24;
(b) of people Genesis 10:21 (J) Genesis 17:4, 5 (P) Genesis 19:37, 38 (J) Genesis 36:9, 43 (P) Deuteronomy 26:5; Isaiah 51:2; Isaiah 43:27 (where אביך הראשׁון thy first father, see Che) compare also Ezekiel 16:3, 45 + often; plural Exodus 3:13, 15, 16 (E) Deuteronomy 1:8; Joshua 1:6; Judges 2:1; 1 Samuel 12:6 +; 1 Samuel 12:15 near the end read וּבְמַלְכְּכֶם Greek Version of the LXX We Dr.
5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art Genesis 4:20, 21.
6. figurative of producer, Generator Job 38:28 הֲיֵשׁ לַמָּטָר אָ֑ב (|| הוֺלִיד אֶגְלֵי־טָֽל׃ מִי־).
7. figurative of benevolence & protection Job 29:6 אָב אָֽנֹכִי לָֽאֶבְיוֺנִים, compare Job 31:18; of Eliakim Isaiah 22:21; perhaps also of gracious Messianic king אֲבִי עַד Isaiah 9:5 [Isaiah 9:6] everlasting father (Ge Ew De Che Brd Di) — others divider of spoil (Abarb Hi Kn Kue BrMP).
8. term of respect & honour (Abbas, Pater, Papa, Pope); applied to master 2 Kings 5:13; priest Judges 17:10; Judges 18:19; prophet 2 Kings 2:12 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 6:21; 2 Kings 13:14 (twice in verse); compare 2 Kings 8:9; counsellor Genesis 45:8 (E; compare δευτέρου πατρός Greek Version of the LXX add. Esther 3:13; τῷ πατρί1Mac Esth 11:32); king 1 Samuel 24:12; artificer 2 Chronicles 2:12; 2 Chronicles 4:16.
9. specifically, ruler, chief (late) 1 Chronicles 2:24, 42 (twice in verse); etc. (compare Ew§ 273 b) see also EwGeschichte. i. 524. H i. 365. On the force of אָב in proper names (in many probably a divine title), see CheEncy. Bib., ABI, NAMES WITHib., NAMES, §§ 44, 45.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:24; 2:24; 4:20; 4:20; 4:21; 10:21; 11:28; 11:29; 12:1; 15:15; 17:4; 17:4; 17:5; 17:5; 18:19; 19:31; 19:32; 19:33; 19:34; 19:37; 19:38; 22:2; 24:40; 25:28; 27:4; 27:41; 28:1; 28:1; 28:6; 28:7; 28:13; 32:9; 36:9; 36:43; 37:3; 37:4; 37:10; 37:35; 38:11; 41:51; 44:19; 44:20; 45:8; 46:31; 46:34; 47:9; 49:4; 50:1; 50:5; 50:16

Exodus

3:13; 3:15; 3:16; 4:5; 4:22; 6:14; 6:14; 6:25; 6:25; 10:6; 12:3; 12:3; 19:4; 20:12; 21:15; 21:17

Leviticus

18:7; 18:8; 18:11; 22:13

Numbers

1:2; 1:18; 3:30; 3:35; 18:1; 18:2

Deuteronomy

1:8; 5:16; 8:5; 21:18; 21:19; 26:5; 32:6; 32:11

Joshua

1:6; 2:12; 2:18; 6:25; 14:1; 19:51; 21:1; 22:14

Judges

2:1; 14:10; 17:10; 18:19

1 Samuel

12:6; 12:15; 17:20; 24:12

2 Samuel

7:14; 12:22; 14:1; 18:5; 19:1; 19:2

1 Kings

1:21; 2:1; 2:10; 8:1; 11:21; 14:31; 15:11; 15:13; 15:24; 19:4; 19:20; 21:3; 21:4; 22:40; 22:51

2 Kings

2:12; 5:13; 6:21; 8:9; 8:24; 13:14; 15:7; 15:38; 16:20; 19:12; 20:17

1 Chronicles

2:24; 2:42; 4:38; 5:13; 5:15; 6:4; 7:11

2 Chronicles

2:12; 4:16

Esther

3:13

Job

17:14; 29:6; 31:18; 38:28

Psalms

68:6; 89:27; 103:13; 103:13

Proverbs

1:8; 4:1; 6:20; 10:1; 15:20; 23:22; 29:3

Isaiah

9:6; 22:21; 43:27; 45:10; 51:2; 63:16; 64:7

Jeremiah

2:27; 3:4; 3:19; 31:9; 35:6

Ezekiel

16:3; 16:45

Daniel

11:24

Hosea

11:1

Zechariah

13:3

Malachi

1:6; 1:6; 2:10

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1 matches the Hebrew אָב ('āḇ),
which occurs 1,213 times in 1,060 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 22 (Lev 20:9–Num 11:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 -

‘If there is anyone who curses his father H1 or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father H1 or his mother. His bloodguiltiness is upon him.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 - ‘If there is a man who lies with his father’s H1 wife, he has uncovered his father’s H1 nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:17 -

‘If there is a man who takes his sister, his father’s H1 daughter, or his mother’s daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he bears his guilt.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:19 - ‘You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s H1 sister, for such a one has made naked his [fn]blood relative; they will bear their guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:2 - except for his [fn]blood relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father H1 and his son and his daughter and his brother,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:9 - ‘Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father H1; she shall be burned with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:11 - nor shall he approach any dead person nor defile himself even for his father H1 or his mother;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:13 - ‘But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no seed, and returns to her father’s H1 house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s H1 [fn]food; but no [fn]layman shall eat of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - ‘He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession of the land of his fathers H1.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:39 - ‘So those of you who may remain will rot away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers H1 they will rot away with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:40 -

‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers H1, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also how they walked in hostility against Me—

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - “Take a [fn]census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:4 - “With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father’s H1 household.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 -

“These are they who were called upon by the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ H1 tribes; they were the heads of [fn]divisions of Israel.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month. Then they registered by genealogy in their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 -

Now the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 -

Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 -

Of the sons of Gad, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 -

Of the sons of Judah, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 -

Of the sons of Issachar, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 -

Of the sons of Zebulun, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 -

Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 -

Of the sons of Manasseh, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 -

Of the sons of Benjamin, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 -

Of the sons of Dan, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 -

Of the sons of Asher, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 -

Of the sons of Naphtali, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 -

These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each of whom was of his father’s H1 household.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ H1 households, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war in Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 -

The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ H1 tribe.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:2 - “The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own standard, with the [fn]banners of their fathers’ H1 households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting [fn]at a distance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 -

These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ H1 households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:34 - Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, every one by his family according to his father’s H1 household.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:4 - But Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests [fn]in the lifetime of their father H1 Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - [fn]Number the sons of Levi by their fathers’ H1 households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall [fn]number.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:20 -

and the sons of Merari by their families:

Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ H1 households.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:24 - and the leader of the fathers’ H1 households of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:30 - and the leader of the fathers’ H1 households of the Kohathite families was [fn]Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:35 - And the leader of the fathers’ H1 households of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the northward side of the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:2 - “Take [fn]a census of the [fn]descendants of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:22 - “Take [fn]a census of the sons of Gershon [fn]also, by their fathers’ H1 households, by their families;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:29 -

As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:34 -

So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers’ H1 households,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:38 -

The numbered men of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their fathers’ H1 households,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:40 - their numbered men by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households, were 2,630.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:42 -

The numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari by their families, by their fathers’ H1 households,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:46 -

All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers’ H1 households,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:7 - ‘He shall not defile himself for his father H1 or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die, because the Nazirite vow to his God is on his head.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:2 - Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ H1 households, brought an offering near (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who [fn]were over the [fn]numbered men).
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:12 - “Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who gave birth to them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a [fn]nurse carries a nursing baby, to the land which You swore to their fathers H1’?

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