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 44:3: "they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers."
Jeremiah 44:9: "Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness"
Jeremiah 44:10: "I set before you and before your fathers."
Jeremiah 44:17: "of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings,"
Jeremiah 44:21: "and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land,"
Jeremiah 47:3: "of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back"
Jeremiah 50:7: "the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers."
Lamentations 5:3: "We are orphans and fatherless, and fatherless, our mothers"
Lamentations 5:7: " Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we their iniquities."
Ezekiel 2:3: "that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very"
Ezekiel 5:10: "Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers;"
Ezekiel 5:10: "of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole"
Ezekiel 16:3: "and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite."
Ezekiel 16:45: "and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite."
Ezekiel 18:2: "the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth"
Ezekiel 18:4: "all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth,"
Ezekiel 18:14: "that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth,"
Ezekiel 18:17: "he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live."
Ezekiel 18:18: " As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled by violence, and did"
Ezekiel 18:19: "the son the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right,"
Ezekiel 18:20: "shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity"
Ezekiel 18:20: "the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness"
Ezekiel 20:4: "the abominations of their fathers:"
Ezekiel 20:18: "ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor"
Ezekiel 20:24: "and their eyes were after their fathers' idols."
Ezekiel 20:27: "GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass"
Ezekiel 20:30: "Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?"
Ezekiel 20:36: "Like as I pleaded with your fathers of the land of Egypt, so"
Ezekiel 20:42: "mine hand to give it to your fathers."
Ezekiel 22:7: "In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed"
Ezekiel 22:10: "In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled for pollution."
Ezekiel 22:11: "in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter."
Ezekiel 36:28: "in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be"
Ezekiel 37:25: "unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they,"
Ezekiel 44:25: "to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter,"
Ezekiel 47:14: "mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance."
Daniel 9:6: "to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land."
Daniel 9:8: "of face, to our kings, and to our fathers, because we have sinned"
Daniel 9:16: "mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach"
Daniel 11:24: "of the province; that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers;"
Daniel 11:24: "his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil,"
Daniel 11:24: "have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches:"
Daniel 11:37: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire nor regard any"
Daniel 11:38: "and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold,"
Hosea 9:10: "like grapes in the wilderness; your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they"
Joel 1:2: "in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?"
Amos 2:4: "caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:"
Amos 2:7: "the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to"
Micah 7:6: "For the son dishonoreth the father, riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law"
Micah 7:20: "which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old."
