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:
Genesis 27:22: "went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's"
Genesis 27:26: " And his father Isaac said unto now, and kiss me, my son."
Genesis 27:30: "scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother"
Genesis 27:31: "had made savory meat, it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise,"
Genesis 27:31: "it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's"
Genesis 27:31: "it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison,"
Genesis 27:32: "And Isaac his father said unto him, Who And he said, I am thy son,"
Genesis 27:34: "heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding"
Genesis 27:34: "bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father."
Genesis 27:34: "Bless me, even me also, O my father."
Genesis 27:38: "And Esau said unto his father, blessing, my father? bless"
Genesis 27:38: "his father, blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father."
Genesis 27:38: "bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept."
Genesis 27:39: "And Isaac his father answered and said him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be"
Genesis 27:41: "the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart,"
Genesis 27:41: "in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother"
Genesis 28:2: "to the house thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence"
Genesis 28:7: "And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, to Padan-aram;"
Genesis 28:8: "pleased not Isaac his father;"
Genesis 28:13: "am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon"
Genesis 28:21: "So that I come again to my father's house then shall the LORD be my God:"
Genesis 29:9: "them, Rachel with her father's sheep: for she kept"
Genesis 29:12: "Rachel that was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's"
Genesis 29:12: "son: and she ran and told her father."
Genesis 31:1: "all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten"
Genesis 31:1: "that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all"
Genesis 31:3: "unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with"
Genesis 31:5: "unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward"
Genesis 31:5: "toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with"
Genesis 31:6: "I have served your father."
Genesis 31:7: " And your father hath deceived me, and changed ten times; but God"
Genesis 31:9: "hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given"
Genesis 31:14: "any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?"
Genesis 31:16: "which hath taken from our father, from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now"
Genesis 31:18: "for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 31:19: "the images that were her father's."
Genesis 31:29: "to do but the God of your father spoke unto me last night, saying,"
Genesis 31:30: "though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore"
Genesis 31:35: "And she said to her father, Let it not my lord that"
Genesis 31:42: "Except the God of my father, the God and the fear of Isaac, had been"
Genesis 31:53: "and the God of Nahor, of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore"
Genesis 31:53: "us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac."
Genesis 32:9: "And Jacob said, O God of my father and God of my father Isaac,"
Genesis 32:9: "of my father and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto"
Genesis 33:19: "at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money."
Genesis 34:4: "And Shechem spoke unto his father saying, Get me"
Genesis 34:6: "And Hamor the father of Shechem went out Jacob to commune with"
Genesis 34:11: "And Shechem said unto her father her brethren, Let me find grace"
Genesis 34:13: "and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled"
Genesis 34:19: "was more honorable than all the house of his father."
