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:
Genesis 35:18: "that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin."
Genesis 35:22: "and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons"
Genesis 35:27: "came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron,"
Genesis 36:9: "And these are the generations of Esau the father in mount Seir:"
Genesis 36:24: "the asses of Zibeon his father."
Genesis 36:43: "of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites."
Genesis 37:1: "And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 37:2: "of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought"
Genesis 37:2: "wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report."
Genesis 37:4: "And when his brethren saw that their father him more than all his brethren,"
Genesis 37:10: "And he told it to his father, and to and his father rebuked him, and said"
Genesis 37:10: "his father, and to and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this"
Genesis 37:11: "And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying."
Genesis 37:12: "went to feed their father's flock in Shechem."
Genesis 37:22: "him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father"
Genesis 37:32: "of many colors, it to their father; and said, This have we found: know"
Genesis 37:35: "unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept"
Genesis 38:11: "his daughter-in-law, a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son"
Genesis 38:11: "did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house."
Genesis 41:51: "all my toil, and all my father's house."
Genesis 42:13: "and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not."
Genesis 42:29: "And they came unto Jacob their father of Canaan, and told him"
Genesis 42:32: "be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest"
Genesis 42:32: "is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan."
Genesis 42:35: "of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money,"
Genesis 42:36: "And Jacob their father said unto of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon"
Genesis 42:37: "And Reuben spoke unto his father, Slay my two"
Genesis 43:2: "which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto"
Genesis 43:7: "asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, Is your father yet alive? have"
Genesis 43:8: "said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise"
Genesis 43:11: " And their father Israel said unto it must be so now, do"
Genesis 43:23: "not: and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had"
Genesis 43:27: "And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father the old man of whom ye spoke?"
Genesis 43:28: "And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance."
Genesis 44:17: "and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father."
Genesis 44:19: "his servants, Have ye a father, or a brother?"
Genesis 44:20: "unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one;"
Genesis 44:20: "alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth"
Genesis 44:22: "leave his father: for if he should leave his father,"
Genesis 44:22: "his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die."
Genesis 44:24: "we came up unto my father, we told him the words of my lord."
Genesis 44:25: " And our father said, Go again, and buy food."
Genesis 44:27: "And thy servant my father said unto know that my wife"
Genesis 44:30: "therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life"
Genesis 44:31: "the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave."
Genesis 44:32: "for unto my father, saying, If I bring"
Genesis 44:32: "I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever."
Genesis 44:34: "how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure"
Genesis 44:34: "that shall come on my father."
Genesis 45:3: "his brethren, am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could"
