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 Kings 3:14: "and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen"
1 Kings 5:1: "they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever"
1 Kings 5:3: "how that my father could not build a house"
1 Kings 5:5: "spoke unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set"
1 Kings 6:12: "I spoke unto David thy father:"
1 Kings 7:14: "son of the tribe and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker"
1 Kings 7:51: "brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold,"
1 Kings 8:1: "the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king"
1 Kings 8:15: "with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,"
1 Kings 8:17: "in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD"
1 Kings 8:18: "said unto David my father, Whereas it was in"
1 Kings 8:20: "and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel,"
1 Kings 8:21: "of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land"
1 Kings 8:24: "hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest"
1 Kings 8:25: "with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying,"
1 Kings 8:26: "thou spakest unto thy servant David my father."
1 Kings 8:34: "the land which thou gavest unto their fathers."
1 Kings 8:40: "in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers."
1 Kings 8:48: "thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen,"
1 Kings 8:53: "of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord"
1 Kings 8:57: "he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake"
1 Kings 8:58: "which he commanded our fathers."
1 Kings 9:4: "before David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness,"
1 Kings 9:5: "I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man"
1 Kings 9:9: "their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt,"
1 Kings 11:4: "his God, as was the heart of David his father."
1 Kings 11:6: "and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father."
1 Kings 11:12: "in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand"
1 Kings 11:17: "he and certain of his father's servants of his father's servants with him, to go"
1 Kings 11:21: "slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host"
1 Kings 11:27: "the breaches of the city of David his father."
1 Kings 11:33: "and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father."
1 Kings 11:43: "And Solomon slept with his fathers, in the city of David his father:"
1 Kings 11:43: "in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead."
1 Kings 12:4: " Thy father made our yoke grievous: therefore make thou the grievous service"
1 Kings 12:4: "therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke"
1 Kings 12:6: "before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How"
1 Kings 12:9: "to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?"
1 Kings 12:10: "spoke unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou"
1 Kings 12:10: "shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins."
1 Kings 12:11: "And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy I will add"
1 Kings 12:11: "I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I"
1 Kings 12:14: "them after the counsel of the young men, My father made your yoke heavy, and I"
1 Kings 12:14: "will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise"
1 Kings 13:11: "he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father."
1 Kings 13:12: " And their father said unto them, What went he? For his sons"
1 Kings 13:22: "come unto the sepulcher of thy fathers."
1 Kings 14:15: "good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond"
1 Kings 14:20: "years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead."
1 Kings 14:22: "which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done."
