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 Chronicles 14:1: "So Abijah slept with his fathers, him in the city of David: and Asa"
2 Chronicles 14:4: "God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment."
2 Chronicles 15:12: "God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;"
2 Chronicles 15:18: "the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold,"
2 Chronicles 16:3: "There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father behold, I have sent thee silver"
2 Chronicles 16:3: "between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold;"
2 Chronicles 16:13: "And Asa slept with his fathers, in the one and fortieth year"
2 Chronicles 17:2: "of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken."
2 Chronicles 17:3: "he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;"
2 Chronicles 17:4: "But sought to the LORD God of his father, in his commandments, and not after the doings"
2 Chronicles 17:14: "And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: the captains of thousands; Adnah"
2 Chronicles 19:4: "and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 19:8: "the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 20:6: "And said, O LORD God of our fathers, thou God in heaven?"
2 Chronicles 20:32: "And he walked in the way of Asa his father, not from it, doing"
2 Chronicles 20:33: "prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 21:1: "Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, with his fathers in the city"
2 Chronicles 21:1: "his fathers, with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son"
2 Chronicles 21:3: " And their father gave them great gifts and of gold, and of precious things, with"
2 Chronicles 21:4: "was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all"
2 Chronicles 21:10: "because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers."
2 Chronicles 21:12: "saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not"
2 Chronicles 21:12: "Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa"
2 Chronicles 21:13: "hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than"
2 Chronicles 21:19: "of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers."
2 Chronicles 22:4: "his counselors after the death of his father to his destruction."
2 Chronicles 23:2: "out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to"
2 Chronicles 24:18: "the house of the LORD of their fathers, and served groves and idols:"
2 Chronicles 24:22: "which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew"
2 Chronicles 24:24: "the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash."
2 Chronicles 25:3: "that had killed the king his father."
2 Chronicles 25:4: "the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children,"
2 Chronicles 25:4: "shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin."
2 Chronicles 25:5: "them captains and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah"
2 Chronicles 25:28: "horses, and buried his fathers in the city of Judah."
2 Chronicles 26:1: "years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah."
2 Chronicles 26:2: "the king slept with his fathers."
2 Chronicles 26:4: "of the LORD, that his father Amaziah did."
2 Chronicles 26:12: "The whole number of the chief of the fathers of valor were two thousand and six"
2 Chronicles 26:23: "So Uzziah slept with his fathers, him with his fathers in the field"
2 Chronicles 26:23: "his fathers, him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings;"
2 Chronicles 27:2: "of the LORD, that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered"
2 Chronicles 27:9: "And Jotham slept with his fathers, him in the city of David: and Ahaz"
2 Chronicles 28:1: "that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:"
2 Chronicles 28:6: "because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 28:9: "unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered"
2 Chronicles 28:25: "and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers."
2 Chronicles 28:27: "And Ahaz slept with his fathers, him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but"
2 Chronicles 29:2: "that David his father had done."
2 Chronicles 29:5: "the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness"
