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:
2 Kings 13:13: "And Joash slept with his fathers; sat upon his throne:"
2 Kings 13:14: "over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen"
2 Kings 13:14: "his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen"
2 Kings 13:25: "which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three"
2 Kings 14:3: "not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash"
2 Kings 14:3: "according to all things as Joash his father did."
2 Kings 14:5: "which had slain the king his father."
2 Kings 14:6: "the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,"
2 Kings 14:6: "the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death"
2 Kings 14:16: "And Jehoash slept with his fathers, in Samaria with the kings"
2 Kings 14:20: "and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David."
2 Kings 14:21: "years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah."
2 Kings 14:22: "the king slept with his fathers."
2 Kings 14:29: "And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel; and Zachariah"
2 Kings 15:3: "of the LORD, that his father Amaziah had done;"
2 Kings 15:7: "So Azariah slept with his fathers; him with his fathers in the city"
2 Kings 15:7: "his fathers; him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son"
2 Kings 15:9: "in the sight of the LORD, his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins"
2 Kings 15:22: "And Menahem slept with his fathers; his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 15:34: "according to all that his father Uzziah had done."
2 Kings 15:38: "And Jotham slept with his fathers, with his fathers in the city"
2 Kings 15:38: "his fathers, with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz"
2 Kings 15:38: "his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 16:2: "in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father."
2 Kings 16:20: "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, with his fathers in the city"
2 Kings 16:20: "his fathers, with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son"
2 Kings 17:13: "according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent"
2 Kings 17:14: "like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD"
2 Kings 17:15: "he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed"
2 Kings 17:41: "and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto"
2 Kings 18:3: "that David his father did."
2 Kings 19:12: "of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran,"
2 Kings 20:5: "saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer,"
2 Kings 20:17: "is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day,"
2 Kings 20:21: "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 21:3: "the high places Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal,"
2 Kings 21:8: "the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do"
2 Kings 21:15: "and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt,"
2 Kings 21:18: "And Manasseh slept with his fathers, in the garden of his own house, in the garden"
2 Kings 21:20: "in the sight of the LORD, his father Manasseh did."
2 Kings 21:21: "in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols"
2 Kings 21:21: "the idols that his father served, and worshiped"
2 Kings 21:22: "the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD."
2 Kings 22:2: "in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left."
2 Kings 22:13: "that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto"
2 Kings 22:20: "therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace;"
2 Kings 23:30: "the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. in his father's stead."
2 Kings 23:32: "of the LORD, that his fathers had done."
2 Kings 23:34: "king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim,"
2 Kings 23:37: "of the LORD, that his fathers had done."
