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:
Proverbs 4:3: "For I was my father's son, and only beloved in the sight of my mother."
Proverbs 6:20: "My son, keep thy father's commandment, not the law of thy mother:"
Proverbs 10:1: "A wise son father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."
Proverbs 13:1: "A wise son heareth his father's instruction: heareth not rebuke."
Proverbs 15:5: "A fool despiseth his father's instruction: reproof is prudent."
Proverbs 15:20: "A wise son maketh a glad father: man despiseth his mother."
Proverbs 17:6: "of old men; of children are their fathers."
Proverbs 17:21: "He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father hath no joy."
Proverbs 17:25: "A foolish son is a grief to his father, to her that bore"
Proverbs 19:13: "A foolish son is the calamity of his father: of a wife are a continual dropping."
Proverbs 19:14: "House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: wife is from the LORD."
Proverbs 19:26: "He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach."
Proverbs 20:20: "Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp in obscure darkness."
Proverbs 22:28: "the ancient landmark, thy fathers have set."
Proverbs 23:22: "Hearken unto thy father that begot not thy mother when"
Proverbs 23:24: " The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth child shall have joy"
Proverbs 23:25: " Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore"
Proverbs 27:10: "Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake neither go into thy brother's"
Proverbs 28:7: "of riotous men shameth his father."
Proverbs 28:24: "Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, transgression; the same is the companion"
Proverbs 29:3: "loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance."
Proverbs 30:11: "There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not their mother."
Proverbs 30:17: "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth his mother, the ravens of the valley"
Isaiah 3:6: "shall take hold of his brother of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this"
Isaiah 7:17: "thee, and upon and upon thy father's house, days that have not"
Isaiah 8:4: "the child shall have knowledge My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus"
Isaiah 9:6: "The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
Isaiah 14:21: "slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land,"
Isaiah 22:21: "thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah."
Isaiah 22:23: "for a glorious throne to his father's house."
Isaiah 22:24: "upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all"
Isaiah 37:12: "of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran,"
Isaiah 38:5: "the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen"
Isaiah 38:19: "he shall praise the father to the children shall make known thy truth."
Isaiah 39:6: "is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day,"
Isaiah 43:27: "Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers"
Isaiah 45:10: "Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?"
Isaiah 51:2: "Look unto Abraham your father, Sarah that bore you: for"
Isaiah 58:14: "and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken"
Isaiah 63:16: "Doubtless thou art our father, though be ignorant of us, and Israel"
Isaiah 63:16: "acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting."
Isaiah 64:8: "But now, O LORD, thou art our father; are the clay, and thou our potter;"
Isaiah 64:11: "and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire:"
Isaiah 65:7: "Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, the LORD, which have burned incense"
Jeremiah 2:5: "the LORD, What have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from"
Jeremiah 2:27: "Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; Thou hast brought me forth: for"
Jeremiah 3:4: "Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, art the guide of my youth?"
Jeremiah 3:18: "the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers."
Jeremiah 3:19: "of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from"
Jeremiah 3:24: "hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks"
