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 Chronicles 28:6: "him to be my son, and I will be his father."
1 Chronicles 28:9: "know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing"
1 Chronicles 29:6: "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes and the captains of thousands and of hundreds,"
1 Chronicles 29:10: "LORD God of Israel our father, forever and ever."
1 Chronicles 29:15: "before as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow,"
1 Chronicles 29:18: "of Abraham, Isaac, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination"
1 Chronicles 29:20: "blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshiped the LORD, and the king."
1 Chronicles 29:23: "as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed"
2 Chronicles 1:2: "in all Israel, the chief of the fathers."
2 Chronicles 1:8: "mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead."
2 Chronicles 1:9: "let thy promise David my father be established: for thou hast made me king"
2 Chronicles 2:3: "thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him a house"
2 Chronicles 2:7: "me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide."
2 Chronicles 2:13: "with understanding, of Huram my father's,"
2 Chronicles 2:14: "of the daughters and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work"
2 Chronicles 2:14: "and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father."
2 Chronicles 2:17: "after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred"
2 Chronicles 3:1: "where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared"
2 Chronicles 4:16: "and all did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house"
2 Chronicles 5:1: "all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all"
2 Chronicles 5:2: "the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem,"
2 Chronicles 6:4: "he spoke with his mouth to my father David, saying,"
2 Chronicles 6:7: "in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 6:8: "said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in"
2 Chronicles 6:10: "for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel,"
2 Chronicles 6:15: "hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest"
2 Chronicles 6:16: "with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying,"
2 Chronicles 6:25: "the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers."
2 Chronicles 6:31: "in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers."
2 Chronicles 6:38: "toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen,"
2 Chronicles 7:17: "before David thy father walked, and do according to all that"
2 Chronicles 7:18: "I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man"
2 Chronicles 7:22: "they forsook God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land"
2 Chronicles 8:14: "And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to"
2 Chronicles 9:31: "And Solomon slept with his fathers, in the city of David his father:"
2 Chronicles 9:31: "in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead."
2 Chronicles 10:4: " Thy father made our yoke grievous: therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude"
2 Chronicles 10:4: "therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke"
2 Chronicles 10:6: "stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What"
2 Chronicles 10:9: "somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon"
2 Chronicles 10:10: "spoke unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter"
2 Chronicles 10:10: "for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's"
2 Chronicles 10:11: "For whereas my father put a heavy upon you, I will put more"
2 Chronicles 10:11: "will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."
2 Chronicles 10:14: "And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy,"
2 Chronicles 10:14: "made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised"
2 Chronicles 11:16: "to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 12:16: "And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, in the city of David: and Abijah"
2 Chronicles 13:12: "against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper."
2 Chronicles 13:18: "upon the LORD God of their fathers."
