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 24:6: "So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: his son reigned in his stead."
2 Kings 24:9: "of the LORD, that his father had done."
1 Chronicles 2:17: "bore Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite."
1 Chronicles 2:21: "to of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he"
1 Chronicles 2:23: "All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 2:24: "bore him Ashur the father of Tekoa."
1 Chronicles 2:42: "his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father"
1 Chronicles 2:42: "of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron."
1 Chronicles 2:44: "begot Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begot"
1 Chronicles 2:45: "of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur."
1 Chronicles 2:49: "She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah,"
1 Chronicles 2:49: "of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter"
1 Chronicles 2:49: "Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah."
1 Chronicles 2:50: "the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,"
1 Chronicles 2:51: "Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph of Beth-gader."
1 Chronicles 2:51: "the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader."
1 Chronicles 2:52: "And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites."
1 Chronicles 2:55: "are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab."
1 Chronicles 4:3: "And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Idbash: and the name of their sister"
1 Chronicles 4:4: "And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer of Hushah. These are the sons"
1 Chronicles 4:4: "the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur,"
1 Chronicles 4:4: "of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem."
1 Chronicles 4:5: "And Ashur the father of Tekoa had wives, Helah and Naarah."
1 Chronicles 4:11: "Mehir, which was the father of Eshton."
1 Chronicles 4:12: "Beth-rapha, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Rechah."
1 Chronicles 4:14: "begot Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were"
1 Chronicles 4:17: "Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa."
1 Chronicles 4:18: "bore the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho,"
1 Chronicles 4:18: "the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah."
1 Chronicles 4:18: "the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah"
1 Chronicles 4:19: "Hodiah the sister the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite."
1 Chronicles 4:21: "the son of Judah the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah,"
1 Chronicles 4:21: "the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought"
1 Chronicles 4:38: "were princes and the house of their fathers increased greatly."
1 Chronicles 5:1: "he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons"
1 Chronicles 5:13: "And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan,"
1 Chronicles 5:15: "chief of the house of their fathers."
1 Chronicles 5:24: "And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel,"
1 Chronicles 5:24: "men, and heads of the house of their fathers."
1 Chronicles 5:25: "And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring the gods of the people of the land,"
1 Chronicles 6:19: "are the families of the Levites according to their fathers."
1 Chronicles 7:2: "and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might"
1 Chronicles 7:4: "And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, of soldiers for war, six"
1 Chronicles 7:7: "five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty"
1 Chronicles 7:9: "by their generations, heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, was twenty thousand"
1 Chronicles 7:11: "the sons of Jediael, of their fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen"
1 Chronicles 7:14: "bore Machir the father of Gilead:"
1 Chronicles 7:22: "And Ephraim their father mourned many and his brethren came to comfort"
1 Chronicles 7:31: "Heber, and Malchiel, is the father of Birzavith."
1 Chronicles 7:40: "were the children of Asher, of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor,"
