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:
Deuteronomy 29:13: "he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Deuteronomy 29:25: "of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with"
Deuteronomy 30:5: "thee into which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply"
Deuteronomy 30:5: "and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. thee above thy fathers."
Deuteronomy 30:9: "as he rejoiced over thy fathers:"
Deuteronomy 30:20: "which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give"
Deuteronomy 31:7: "which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit"
Deuteronomy 31:16: "thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring"
Deuteronomy 31:20: "the land I swore unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten"
Deuteronomy 32:6: "and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made"
Deuteronomy 32:7: "of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell"
Deuteronomy 32:17: "to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not."
Deuteronomy 33:9: "Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren,"
Joshua 1:6: "the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give"
Joshua 2:12: "that ye will also show kindness unto my father's house, and give"
Joshua 2:13: "And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my sisters, and all that"
Joshua 2:18: "which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's"
Joshua 2:18: "and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto"
Joshua 4:21: "your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these"
Joshua 5:6: "the land, which the LORD swore unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth"
Joshua 6:23: "and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that"
Joshua 6:25: "saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth"
Joshua 14:1: "the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance"
Joshua 15:13: "even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron."
Joshua 15:18: "unto him, that she moved him to ask her father a field: and she lighted off"
Joshua 17:1: "to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was"
Joshua 17:4: "them an inheritance among the brethren of their father."
Joshua 18:3: "the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given"
Joshua 19:47: "Dan, after the name of Dan their father."
Joshua 19:51: "the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance"
Joshua 21:1: "Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites Eleazar the priest, and unto"
Joshua 21:1: "of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;"
Joshua 21:11: "them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill"
Joshua 21:43: "which he swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt"
Joshua 21:44: "round about, according to all he swore unto their fathers: and there stood not a man"
Joshua 22:14: "princes, of each chief a prince throughout all"
Joshua 22:14: "throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was a head of the house of their fathers among the thousands"
Joshua 22:28: "of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor"
Joshua 24:2: "the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time,"
Joshua 24:2: "of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor:"
Joshua 24:2: "in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other"
Joshua 24:3: "And I took your father from the other side of the flood,"
Joshua 24:6: "And I brought your fathers out And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea;"
Joshua 24:6: "of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; pursued after your fathers with chariots"
Joshua 24:14: "the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt;"
Joshua 24:15: "the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood,"
Joshua 24:17: "our God, he us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house"
Joshua 24:32: "bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred"
Judges 1:14: "to him, that she moved him to ask her father a field: and she lighted from off"
Judges 2:1: "and have brought you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never"
