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 19:9: "and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day"
Judges 21:22: "And it shall be, when their fathers or come unto us to complain,"
Ruth 2:11: "the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come"
Ruth 4:17: "his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David."
Ruth 4:17: "he is the father of Jesse, the father of David."
1 Samuel 2:25: "for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay"
1 Samuel 2:27: "Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's"
1 Samuel 2:28: "an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire"
1 Samuel 2:30: "indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever:"
1 Samuel 2:31: "thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man"
1 Samuel 9:3: "And the asses of Kish Saul's father And Kish said to"
1 Samuel 9:5: "him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought"
1 Samuel 9:20: "of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?"
1 Samuel 10:2: "thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care"
1 Samuel 10:12: "of the same place answered and said, is their father? Therefore it became"
1 Samuel 12:6: "and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt."
1 Samuel 12:7: "he did to you and to your fathers."
1 Samuel 12:8: "Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD"
1 Samuel 12:8: "and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this"
1 Samuel 12:15: "then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers."
1 Samuel 14:1: "is on the other side. But he told not his father."
1 Samuel 14:27: "But Jonathan heard not when his father wherefore he put forth"
1 Samuel 14:28: "one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath,"
1 Samuel 14:29: "Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you,"
1 Samuel 14:51: "And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner of Abner was the son of Abiel."
1 Samuel 14:51: "was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel."
1 Samuel 17:15: "from to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem."
1 Samuel 17:25: "and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."
1 Samuel 17:34: "Saul, kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion,"
1 Samuel 18:2: "day, him go no more home to his father's house."
1 Samuel 18:18: "am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be"
1 Samuel 19:2: "David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee,"
1 Samuel 19:3: "will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou"
1 Samuel 19:3: "thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell"
1 Samuel 19:4: "of David Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king"
1 Samuel 20:1: "is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh"
1 Samuel 20:2: "thou shalt not die: my father will do nothing either great"
1 Samuel 20:2: "but that he will show it me: and why should my father hide"
1 Samuel 20:3: "swore moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found"
1 Samuel 20:6: "If thy father at all miss me, then say, earnestly asked"
1 Samuel 20:8: "for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?"
1 Samuel 20:9: "that evil were determined by my father to come upon"
1 Samuel 20:10: "shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?"
1 Samuel 20:12: "when I have sounded my father about tomorrow any time, or the third day, and, behold,"
1 Samuel 20:13: "to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will show it thee,"
1 Samuel 20:13: "and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father."
1 Samuel 20:32: "answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain?"
1 Samuel 20:33: "it was determined of his father to slay David."
1 Samuel 20:34: "he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame."
1 Samuel 22:1: "the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down"
