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:
1 Samuel 22:3: "and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth,"
1 Samuel 22:11: "the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob:"
1 Samuel 22:15: "unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing"
1 Samuel 22:16: "Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, and all thy father's house."
1 Samuel 22:22: "I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house."
1 Samuel 23:17: "the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king"
1 Samuel 23:17: "unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth."
1 Samuel 24:11: " Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand:"
1 Samuel 24:21: "thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house. out of my father's house."
2 Samuel 2:32: "Asahel, and buried of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men"
2 Samuel 3:7: "Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?"
2 Samuel 3:8: "unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends,"
2 Samuel 3:29: "of Joab, all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house"
2 Samuel 6:21: "the LORD, which chose me before thy father, me before thy father, and before all his house,"
2 Samuel 7:12: "be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after"
2 Samuel 7:14: "I will be his father, and he my son. If he commit iniquity,"
2 Samuel 9:7: "I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore"
2 Samuel 9:7: "and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat"
2 Samuel 10:2: "the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me. And David"
2 Samuel 10:2: "him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land"
2 Samuel 10:3: "thou that David doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not"
2 Samuel 13:5: "on and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto"
2 Samuel 14:9: "the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless."
2 Samuel 15:34: "thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I"
2 Samuel 16:3: "restore me the kingdom of my father."
2 Samuel 16:19: "of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence."
2 Samuel 16:21: "Absalom, in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep"
2 Samuel 16:21: "that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with"
2 Samuel 16:22: "of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel."
2 Samuel 17:8: "thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men,"
2 Samuel 17:8: "as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge"
2 Samuel 17:10: "for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which"
2 Samuel 17:23: "in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father."
2 Samuel 19:28: "For all of my father's house but dead"
2 Samuel 19:37: "and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham;"
2 Samuel 21:14: "in Zelah, in the sepulcher of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king"
2 Samuel 24:17: "let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house."
1 Kings 1:6: " And his father had not displeased him at any time Why hast thou done"
1 Kings 1:21: "the king shall sleep his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted"
1 Kings 2:10: "So David slept with his fathers, in the city of David."
1 Kings 2:12: "upon the throne his father; and his kingdom was established greatly."
1 Kings 2:24: "me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as"
1 Kings 2:26: "GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein"
1 Kings 2:26: "thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted."
1 Kings 2:31: "from me, and from the house of my father."
1 Kings 2:32: "than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit,"
1 Kings 2:44: "that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness"
1 Kings 3:3: "in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense"
1 Kings 3:6: "thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked"
1 Kings 3:7: "king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know"
