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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 6 / 22 (Num 12:14–Deu 6:23)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - But the LORD said to Moses, “If her father H1 had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - “Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ H1 tribes, every one a leader among them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:18 - ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers H1 on the children [fn]to the third and the fourth generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:23 - shall by no means see the land which I swore to their fathers, H1 nor shall any of those who spurned Me see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, and get from them a rod for each father’s H1 household: twelve rods, from all their leaders according to their fathers’ H1 households. You shall write each name on his rod,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:3 - and write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there is one rod for the head of each of their fathers’ H1 households.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:6 - Moses therefore spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers’ H1 households, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among their rods.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:1 - So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s H1 household with you shall bear the guilt [fn]in connection with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear the guilt [fn]in connection with your priesthood.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - “But bring with you also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, H1 that they may be joined with you and serve you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:15 - that our fathers H1 went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our fathers H1 badly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:14 - Now the name of the [fn]slain man of Israel who was [fn]slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father’s H1 household among the Simeonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:15 - The name of the Midianite woman who was [fn]slain was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, [fn]who was head of the people of a father’s H1 household in Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 - “Take a [fn]census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ H1 households, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55 - “But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall [fn]receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:3 - “Our father H1 died in the wilderness, yet he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - “Why should the name of our father H1 be withdrawn from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father’s H1 brothers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a hereditary possession among their father’s H1 brothers, and you shall transfer the inheritance of their father H1 to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:10 - ‘If he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s H1 brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - ‘If his father H1 has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest relative in his own family, and he shall possess it; and it shall be a statutory ordinance to the sons of Israel, just as the LORD commanded Moses.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 - “Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s H1 house in her youth,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:4 - and her father H1 hears her vow and her obligation by which she has bound herself, and her father H1 [fn]says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand and every obligation by which she has bound herself shall stand.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:5 - “But if her father H1 should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her because her father H1 had forbidden her.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:16 - These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, as between a man and his wife, and as between a father H1 and his daughter, while she is in her youth in her father’s H1 house.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - “You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ H1 households of the congregation take a count of the booty [fn]that was captured, both of man and of animal;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:8 - [fn]This is what your fathers H1 did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - “Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ H1 place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28 - So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ H1 households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - ‘You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:14 - “For the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received theirs according to their fathers’ H1 households, and the tribe of the sons of Gad according to their fathers’ H1 households, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:1 - And the heads of the fathers’ H1 households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ H1 households of the sons of Israel,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - “But if they [fn]marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers H1 and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - “When the jubilee of the sons of Israel [fn]comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.” H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:6 - “This is [fn]what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry [fn]whom they wish; only they must marry within the family of the tribe of their father.’ H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - “Thus no inheritance of the sons of Israel shall [fn]be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel shall each [fn]hold to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - “Every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, H1 so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:12 - They married those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance [fn]remained with the tribe of the family of their father. H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:8 - ‘See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, H1 to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their [fn]descendants after them.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:11 - ‘May the LORD, the God of your fathers, H1 increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has [fn]promised you!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:21 - ‘See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, H1 has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:35 - ‘Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:1 - “Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, H1 is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:31 - “For the LORD your God is a compassionate God; He will not fail you nor destroy you nor forget the covenant with your fathers H1 which He swore to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - [fn]Because He loved your fathers, H1 therefore He chose [fn]their descendants after them. And He [fn]personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:3 - “The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, H1 but with us, with all those of [fn]us alive here today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:9 - ‘You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers H1 on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:16 - ‘Honor your father H1 and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - “O Israel, you should listen and [fn]be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, H1 has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 - “Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, H1 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:18 - “You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to give your fathers, H1
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:23 - He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’ H1

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