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 14:31: "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, with his fathers in the city"
1 Kings 14:31: "his fathers, with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name"
1 Kings 15:3: "And he walked in all the sins of his father, he had done before him: and his heart"
1 Kings 15:3: "his God, as the heart of David his father."
1 Kings 15:8: "And Abijam slept with his fathers; him in the city of David: and Asa"
1 Kings 15:11: "in the eyes as did David his father."
1 Kings 15:12: "all the idols that his fathers had made."
1 Kings 15:15: "And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver,"
1 Kings 15:19: "There is a league between me and thee, and between my father behold, I have sent unto thee a present"
1 Kings 15:19: "between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver"
1 Kings 15:24: "And Asa slept with his fathers, with his fathers in the city"
1 Kings 15:24: "his fathers, with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat"
1 Kings 15:24: "his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead."
1 Kings 15:26: "of the LORD, in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin."
1 Kings 16:6: "So Baasha slept with his fathers, in Tirzah: and Elah his son"
1 Kings 16:28: "So Omri slept with his fathers, in Samaria: and Ahab his son"
1 Kings 18:18: "but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken"
1 Kings 19:4: "I am not better than my fathers. than my fathers."
1 Kings 19:20: "and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said"
1 Kings 20:34: "unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father,"
1 Kings 20:34: "took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets"
1 Kings 20:34: "and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I"
1 Kings 21:3: "forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers"
1 Kings 21:4: "give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away"
1 Kings 22:40: "So Ahab slept with his fathers; his son reigned in his stead."
1 Kings 22:43: "in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing"
1 Kings 22:46: "which remained of his father Asa, he took out of the land."
1 Kings 22:50: "And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, with his fathers in the city"
1 Kings 22:50: "his fathers, with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram"
1 Kings 22:50: "his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead."
1 Kings 22:52: "of the LORD, in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam"
1 Kings 22:53: "of Israel, according to all that his father had done."
2 Kings 2:12: "saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen"
2 Kings 2:12: "it, and he cried, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw"
2 Kings 3:2: "of the LORD; not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image"
2 Kings 3:2: "the image of Baal that his father had made."
2 Kings 3:13: "have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king"
2 Kings 4:18: "on a day, to his father to the reapers."
2 Kings 4:19: "And he said unto his father, My head, And he said to a lad,"
2 Kings 5:13: "and spoke unto My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great"
2 Kings 6:21: "unto when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite"
2 Kings 8:24: "And Joram slept with his fathers, with his fathers in the city"
2 Kings 8:24: "his fathers, with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son"
2 Kings 9:25: "together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this"
2 Kings 9:28: "to Jerusalem, and buried with his fathers in the city of David."
2 Kings 10:3: "of your master's sons, him on his father's throne, and fight"
2 Kings 10:35: "And Jehu slept with his fathers: him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son"
2 Kings 12:18: "Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things,"
2 Kings 12:21: "him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son"
2 Kings 13:9: "And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; him in Samaria: and Joash his son"
