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:
Leviticus 21:9: "she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire."
Leviticus 21:11: "body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;"
Leviticus 22:13: "child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat:"
Leviticus 22:13: "house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: of her father's meat: but there shall no"
Leviticus 25:41: "unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return."
Leviticus 26:39: "and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with"
Leviticus 26:40: "their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that"
Numbers 1:2: "of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male"
Numbers 1:4: "every one head of the house of his fathers."
Numbers 1:16: "of the congregation, princes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel."
Numbers 1:18: "after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:20: "after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every"
Numbers 1:22: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls,"
Numbers 1:24: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:26: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:28: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:30: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:32: "after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:34: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:36: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:38: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:40: "by their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:42: "throughout their generations, after their families, of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years"
Numbers 1:44: "each one was for the house of his fathers."
Numbers 1:45: "of the children by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old"
Numbers 1:47: "But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not among"
Numbers 2:2: "his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about"
Numbers 2:32: "of the children of Israel of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts"
Numbers 2:34: "after their families, according to the house of their fathers."
Numbers 3:4: "in the sight of Aaron their father."
Numbers 3:15: "the children of Levi of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month"
Numbers 3:20: "are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers."
Numbers 3:24: "And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites the son of Lael."
Numbers 3:30: "And the chief of the house of the father of the families shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel."
Numbers 3:35: "And the chief of the house of the father of the families was Zuriel the son of Abihail:"
Numbers 4:2: "the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,"
Numbers 4:22: "of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;"
Numbers 4:29: "thou shalt number them after their families, of their fathers;"
Numbers 4:34: "of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,"
Numbers 4:38: "of Gershon, throughout their families, of their fathers,"
Numbers 4:40: "Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, two thousand and six hundred"
Numbers 4:42: "of Merari, by the house of their fathers,"
Numbers 4:46: "numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,"
Numbers 6:7: "He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, or for his sister, when they die: because"
Numbers 7:2: "of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over"
Numbers 11:12: "the land which thou sworest unto their fathers?"
Numbers 12:14: "said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not"
Numbers 13:2: "unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one"
Numbers 14:18: "and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon"
Numbers 14:23: "the land I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see"
