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:
Jeremiah 3:25: "against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this"
Jeremiah 6:21: "before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor"
Jeremiah 7:7: "in the land I gave to your fathers, forever and ever."
Jeremiah 7:14: "and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh."
Jeremiah 7:18: "The children gather wood, and the fathers the fire, and the women"
Jeremiah 7:22: "I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought"
Jeremiah 7:25: "Since the day that your fathers out of the land of Egypt"
Jeremiah 7:26: "their neck: they did worse than their fathers. than their fathers."
Jeremiah 9:14: "Baalim, which their fathers taught"
Jeremiah 9:16: "whom neither nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword"
Jeremiah 11:4: "Which I commanded your fathers that I brought them forth out of the land"
Jeremiah 11:5: "the oath I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk"
Jeremiah 11:7: "For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day out of the land"
Jeremiah 11:10: "They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, of their forefathers, refused to hear"
Jeremiah 11:10: "my covenant which I made with their fathers."
Jeremiah 12:6: "even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea,"
Jeremiah 13:14: "them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD:"
Jeremiah 14:20: "O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned"
Jeremiah 16:3: "their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land;"
Jeremiah 16:7: "of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother."
Jeremiah 16:11: "Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers me, saith the LORD,"
Jeremiah 16:12: "And ye have done worse than your fathers; than your fathers; ye walk every one"
Jeremiah 16:13: "that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve"
Jeremiah 16:15: "whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers."
Jeremiah 16:19: "thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity,"
Jeremiah 17:22: "the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers."
Jeremiah 19:4: "gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah,"
Jeremiah 20:15: "who brought tidings my father, saying, A man child is born"
Jeremiah 22:11: "which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this"
Jeremiah 22:15: "closest did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment"
Jeremiah 23:27: "every man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal."
Jeremiah 23:39: "you, and I will forsake that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:"
Jeremiah 24:10: "from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers."
Jeremiah 25:5: "in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers forever and ever:"
Jeremiah 30:3: "the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess"
Jeremiah 31:9: "stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn."
Jeremiah 31:29: "they shall say no The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth"
Jeremiah 31:32: "that I made their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring"
Jeremiah 32:18: "unto thousands, and recompensest of the fathers into the bosom of their children after"
Jeremiah 32:22: "land, thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk"
Jeremiah 34:5: "But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, kings which were"
Jeremiah 34:13: "made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land"
Jeremiah 34:14: "years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not"
Jeremiah 35:6: "Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink"
Jeremiah 35:8: "of Jonadab the son our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink"
Jeremiah 35:10: "that Jonadab our father commanded"
Jeremiah 35:14: "but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto"
Jeremiah 35:15: "in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined"
Jeremiah 35:16: "have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people"
Jeremiah 35:18: "Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept"
