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 29:6: "For our fathers have trespassed, and done in the eyes of the LORD our God,"
2 Chronicles 29:9: "For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our daughters and our wives are in captivity"
2 Chronicles 30:7: "And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, trespassed against the LORD God"
2 Chronicles 30:7: "trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye"
2 Chronicles 30:8: "Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield"
2 Chronicles 30:19: "God, God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary."
2 Chronicles 30:22: "offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 31:17: "the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old"
2 Chronicles 32:13: "ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands?"
2 Chronicles 32:14: "of those that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver"
2 Chronicles 32:15: "to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less"
2 Chronicles 32:33: "And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, him in the chiefest of the sepulchers of the sons"
2 Chronicles 33:3: "the high places Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim,"
2 Chronicles 33:8: "from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed"
2 Chronicles 33:12: "and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,"
2 Chronicles 33:20: "So Manasseh slept with his fathers, him in his own house: and Amon his son"
2 Chronicles 33:22: "did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images"
2 Chronicles 33:22: "the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served"
2 Chronicles 33:23: "And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but"
2 Chronicles 34:2: "in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left."
2 Chronicles 34:3: "to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began"
2 Chronicles 34:21: "that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept"
2 Chronicles 34:28: "Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, to thy grave in peace,"
2 Chronicles 34:32: "according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 34:33: "from following the LORD, the God of their fathers."
2 Chronicles 35:4: "And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, of David king of Israel,"
2 Chronicles 35:5: "in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division"
2 Chronicles 35:5: "of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the families of the Levites."
2 Chronicles 35:12: "the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer"
2 Chronicles 35:24: "and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchers of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned"
2 Chronicles 36:1: "the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in his father's stead in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 36:15: "And the LORD God of their fathers sent them by his messengers, rising up quickly,"
Ezra 1:5: "Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and the priests, and the Levites, with all"
Ezra 2:59: "and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether"
Ezra 2:68: "And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house which is at Jerusalem,"
Ezra 3:12: "of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen"
Ezra 4:2: "Zerubbabel, and to of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for"
Ezra 4:3: "and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build"
Ezra 7:27: "Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, hath put such a thing as this in the king's"
Ezra 8:1: "These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy with me from Babylon,"
Ezra 8:28: "are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers."
Ezra 8:29: "of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house"
Ezra 9:7: "Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great unto this"
Ezra 10:11: "confession unto the LORD of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people"
Ezra 10:16: "the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names,"
Ezra 10:16: "chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down"
Nehemiah 1:6: "of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned."
Nehemiah 2:3: "when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed"
Nehemiah 2:5: "me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchers, that I may build"
Nehemiah 7:61: "and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether"
