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Strong's #1: 'ab (pronounced awb)

a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application):--chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âb

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

4a) grandfather, forefathers - of person

4b) of people

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

6) of producer, generator (figuratively)

7) of benevolence and protection (figuratively)

8) term of respect and honour

9) ruler or chief (specifically)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: a root



Usage:

This word is used 1214 times:

Nehemiah 7:70: "And some of the chief of the fathers gave The Tirshatha gave"
Nehemiah 7:71: "And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure twenty thousand"
Nehemiah 8:13: "day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites,"
Nehemiah 9:2: "and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers."
Nehemiah 9:9: "And didst see the affliction of our fathers and heardest their cry by"
Nehemiah 9:16: "But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not"
Nehemiah 9:23: "the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess"
Nehemiah 9:32: "on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time"
Nehemiah 9:34: "our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened"
Nehemiah 9:36: "that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good"
Nehemiah 10:34: "to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year"
Nehemiah 11:13: "And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred and two: and Amashai the son"
Nehemiah 12:12: "were priests, of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;"
Nehemiah 12:22: "and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius"
Nehemiah 12:23: "The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, in the book of the chronicles,"
Nehemiah 13:18: "Did not your fathers thus, bring all"
Esther 2:7: "his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair"
Esther 2:7: "and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother"
Esther 4:14: "arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house"
Job 8:8: "and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:"
Job 15:10: "and very aged men, than thy father. than thy father."
Job 15:18: "Which wise men have told from their fathers, from their fathers, hid"
Job 17:14: "I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister."
Job 29:16: "I was a father to the poor: and the cause not I searched out."
Job 30:1: "they that are younger than I have me in derision, fathers I would have disdained to have set"
Job 31:18: "(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, her from my mother's womb;)"
Job 38:28: "Hath the rain a father? or hath begotten the drops of dew?"
Job 42:15: "so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren."
Psalms 22:4: " Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver"
Psalms 27:10: "When my father and my mother forsake will take me up."
Psalms 39:12: "am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers"
Psalms 44:1: "with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days,"
Psalms 45:10: "forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;"
Psalms 45:16: "Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, princes in all the earth."
Psalms 49:19: "He shall go to the generation of his fathers; see"
Psalms 68:5: " A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, in his holy habitation."
Psalms 78:3: "Which we have heard and known, and our fathers"
Psalms 78:5: "which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:"
Psalms 78:8: "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn generation; a generation that set not their heart aright,"
Psalms 78:12: "Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, of Egypt, in the field of Zoan."
Psalms 78:57: "But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside bow."
Psalms 89:26: "He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, and the rock of my salvation."
Psalms 95:9: "When your fathers tempted me, proved saw my work."
Psalms 103:13: " Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD them that fear"
Psalms 106:6: "We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity,"
Psalms 106:7: " Our fathers understood not thy wonders they remembered not"
Psalms 109:14: "Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with and let not the sin of his mother"
Proverbs 1:8: "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, not the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 3:12: "the LORD he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth."
Proverbs 4:1: "Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, to know understanding."









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