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:
Judges 2:10: "generation unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after"
Judges 2:12: "the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land"
Judges 2:17: "out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD;"
Judges 2:19: "was dead, that they returned, themselves more than their fathers, themselves more than their fathers, in following other"
Judges 2:20: "which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;"
Judges 2:22: "of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not."
Judges 3:4: "which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses."
Judges 6:13: "be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD"
Judges 6:15: "in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
Judges 6:25: "unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock"
Judges 6:25: "the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that"
Judges 6:27: "him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city,"
Judges 8:32: "and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites."
Judges 9:1: "the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,"
Judges 9:5: "And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, his brethren the sons"
Judges 9:17: "(For my father fought for his life far,"
Judges 9:18: "And ye are risen up against my father's this day, and have slain"
Judges 9:28: "the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve"
Judges 9:56: "which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:"
Judges 11:2: "and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son"
Judges 11:7: "ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come"
Judges 11:36: "And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD,"
Judges 11:37: "And she said unto her father, Let this be done for me: let me alone"
Judges 11:39: "of two months, unto her father, who did with her according to his vow"
Judges 14:2: "And he came up, and told his father and his mother, I have seen a woman in Timnath"
Judges 14:3: " Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all"
Judges 14:3: "Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she"
Judges 14:4: " But his father and his mother knew not it was of the LORD,"
Judges 14:5: "Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, to the vineyards"
Judges 14:6: "and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what"
Judges 14:9: "and went on and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat:"
Judges 14:10: " So his father went down unto the woman: made there a feast;"
Judges 14:15: "the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have?"
Judges 14:16: "unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell"
Judges 14:19: "And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house."
Judges 15:1: "and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer"
Judges 15:2: " And her father said, I verily thought that her; therefore I gave"
Judges 15:6: "And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire."
Judges 16:31: "Then his brethren and all the house of his father and took him, and brought him up, and buried"
Judges 16:31: "and Eshtaol in the burial place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel"
Judges 17:10: "unto him, Dwell with unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten"
Judges 18:19: "and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest"
Judges 18:29: "Dan, of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit"
Judges 19:2: "him, and went away him unto her father's house to Bethlehem-judah,"
Judges 19:3: "with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel"
Judges 19:3: "of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced"
Judges 19:4: "And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained with him three days:"
Judges 19:5: "that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son-in-law, Comfort"
Judges 19:6: "both for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content,"
Judges 19:8: "day and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee."
