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 45:8: "but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house,"
Genesis 45:9: "Haste ye, and go up to my father, unto him, Thus saith"
Genesis 45:13: "And ye shall tell my father of all in Egypt, and of all that"
Genesis 45:13: "and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither."
Genesis 45:18: "And take your father and your households, unto me: and I will give you"
Genesis 45:19: "for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come."
Genesis 45:23: " And to his father he sent after this manner; ten laden with the good things"
Genesis 45:23: "laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way."
Genesis 45:25: "into the land unto Jacob their father,"
Genesis 45:27: "had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:"
Genesis 46:1: "and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac."
Genesis 46:3: "I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down"
Genesis 46:5: "carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons"
Genesis 46:29: "and went up Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell"
Genesis 46:31: "unto his brethren, his father's house, I will go up, and show Pharaoh,"
Genesis 46:31: "and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan,"
Genesis 46:34: "now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land"
Genesis 47:1: "and told Pharaoh, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all"
Genesis 47:3: "are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers."
Genesis 47:5: "unto Joseph, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto"
Genesis 47:6: "thee; in the best make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen"
Genesis 47:7: "brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob"
Genesis 47:9: "the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Genesis 47:11: "And Joseph placed his father and gave them a possession in the land"
Genesis 47:12: "And Joseph nourished his father, and all his father's household,"
Genesis 47:12: "his father, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families."
Genesis 47:30: "But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry and bury me in their burial place."
Genesis 48:1: "Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him"
Genesis 48:9: "And Joseph said unto his father, are my sons, whom God"
Genesis 48:15: "before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God"
Genesis 48:16: "the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow"
Genesis 48:17: "And when Joseph saw that his father his right hand upon"
Genesis 48:17: "of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from"
Genesis 48:18: "And Joseph said unto his father, so, my father: for"
Genesis 48:18: "his father, so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put"
Genesis 48:19: " And his father refused, and said, I know I know it: he also"
Genesis 48:21: "you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers."
Genesis 49:2: "unto Israel your father."
Genesis 49:4: "excel; thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up"
Genesis 49:8: "shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down"
Genesis 49:25: "Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, thee with blessings of heaven"
Genesis 49:26: "The blessings of thy father have prevailed above of my progenitors unto the utmost bound"
Genesis 49:28: "tribes and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; every one"
Genesis 49:29: "my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field"
Genesis 50:1: "And Joseph fell upon his father's and wept upon him, and kissed"
Genesis 50:2: "the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel."
Genesis 50:5: " My father made me swear, saying, Lo, die: in my grave which"
Genesis 50:5: "I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again."
Genesis 50:6: "Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."
Genesis 50:7: "went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants"
