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:
Numbers 17:2: "of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all"
Numbers 17:2: "of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve"
Numbers 17:3: "rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers."
Numbers 17:6: "him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses,"
Numbers 18:1: "Aaron, and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear"
Numbers 18:2: "of the tribe the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto"
Numbers 20:15: " How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt a long time; and the Egyptians"
Numbers 20:15: "time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:"
Numbers 25:14: "was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites."
Numbers 25:15: "he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian."
Numbers 26:2: "years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go"
Numbers 26:55: "according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit."
Numbers 27:3: " Our father died in the wilderness, and he not in the company"
Numbers 27:4: "Why should the name of our father be done away his family, because"
Numbers 27:4: "Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father."
Numbers 27:7: "them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance"
Numbers 27:7: "their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass"
Numbers 27:10: "then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren."
Numbers 27:11: "And if his father have no brethren, his inheritance unto his kinsman"
Numbers 30:3: "and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;"
Numbers 30:4: " And her father hear her vow, wherewith she hath bound"
Numbers 30:4: "wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows"
Numbers 30:5: "But if her father disallow her in the day not any of her vows,"
Numbers 30:5: "shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed"
Numbers 30:16: "a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house."
Numbers 30:16: "the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house."
Numbers 31:26: "and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:"
Numbers 32:8: "Thus did your fathers, when I sent to see"
Numbers 32:14: "And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, in your fathers' stead, an increase men, to augment"
Numbers 32:28: "the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:"
Numbers 33:54: "in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit."
Numbers 34:14: "of the children of Reuben of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house"
Numbers 34:14: "of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh"
Numbers 36:1: "And the chief fathers of the families of the children the son of Machir, the son"
Numbers 36:1: "Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:"
Numbers 36:3: "of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put"
Numbers 36:4: "be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
Numbers 36:6: "to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry."
Numbers 36:7: "of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers."
Numbers 36:8: "wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children"
Numbers 36:8: "the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers."
Numbers 36:12: "and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father."
Deuteronomy 1:8: "which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give"
Deuteronomy 1:11: "(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand so many more as ye are, and bless you, as"
Deuteronomy 1:21: "it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither"
Deuteronomy 1:35: "which I swore to give unto your fathers,"
Deuteronomy 4:1: "which the LORD God of your fathers giveth"
Deuteronomy 4:31: "forget the covenant of thy fathers which he swore"
Deuteronomy 4:37: "And because he loved thy fathers, their seed after"
Deuteronomy 5:3: "covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who"
