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:
Zechariah 1:2: "The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers."
Zechariah 1:4: "Be ye not as your fathers, unto the former prophets have cried,"
Zechariah 1:5: " Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, forever?"
Zechariah 1:6: "the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD"
Zechariah 8:14: "As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD"
Zechariah 13:3: "any shall yet then his father and his mother that begot him shall say unto"
Zechariah 13:3: "lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth."
Malachi 1:6: "A son honoreth his father, and a servant if then I be a father,"
Malachi 1:6: "if then I be a father, where is mine honor? and if I"
Malachi 2:10: "Have we not all one father? one God created"
Malachi 2:10: "against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?"
Malachi 3:7: "Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, kept"
Malachi 4:6: "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to and the heart of the children to"
Malachi 4:6: "and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite"
