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 50:8: "the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks,"
Genesis 50:10: "lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days."
Genesis 50:14: "with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father."
Genesis 50:14: "after he had buried his father."
Genesis 50:15: "brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure"
Genesis 50:16: "unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,"
Genesis 50:17: "the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto"
Genesis 50:22: "dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived a hundred"
Exodus 2:16: "the troughs to water their father's flock."
Exodus 2:18: "And when they came to Reuel their father, How is it that ye are come so soon"
Exodus 3:6: "Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, of Abraham, the God of Isaac,"
Exodus 3:13: "of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What"
Exodus 3:15: "of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,"
Exodus 3:16: "unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob,"
Exodus 4:5: "that the LORD of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,"
Exodus 6:14: "These be the heads of their fathers' houses: of Reuben the firstborn of Israel;"
Exodus 6:25: "him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families."
Exodus 10:6: "the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day"
Exodus 10:6: "which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day"
Exodus 10:6: "neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were"
Exodus 12:3: "to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house:"
Exodus 13:5: "and the Jebusites, which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk"
Exodus 13:11: "of the Canaanites, as he swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give"
Exodus 15:2: "he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt"
Exodus 18:4: "was Eliezer; for of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword"
Exodus 20:5: "God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third"
Exodus 20:12: "Honor thy father and thy mother: thy days may be long upon"
Exodus 21:15: "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death."
Exodus 21:17: "And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death."
Exodus 22:17: "If her father utterly refuse to give money according to the dowry"
Exodus 34:7: "and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children,"
Exodus 40:15: "them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be"
Leviticus 16:32: "and whom to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, in his father's stead, shall make the atonement,"
Leviticus 18:7: "The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, uncover: she is thy mother;"
Leviticus 18:8: "The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not it is thy father's nakedness."
Leviticus 18:8: "shalt thou not it is thy father's nakedness."
Leviticus 18:9: "The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, daughter of thy mother, whether she be born"
Leviticus 18:11: "The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, of thy father, she is thy sister,"
Leviticus 18:11: "wife's daughter, of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover"
Leviticus 18:12: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's she is thy father's near kinswoman."
Leviticus 18:12: "of thy father's she is thy father's near kinswoman."
Leviticus 18:14: "Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's thou shalt not approach to"
Leviticus 19:3: "Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, my sabbaths: I am the LORD"
Leviticus 20:9: "every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death:"
Leviticus 20:9: "his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood"
Leviticus 20:11: "that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness:"
Leviticus 20:11: "wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death;"
Leviticus 20:17: "shall take his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter,"
Leviticus 20:19: "the nakedness of thy mother's nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth"
Leviticus 21:2: "for his kin, that is near unto and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,"
