Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1

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Original: אב

Transliteration: ab ('âb)

Phonetic: awb

BDB Definition:

father of an individual
of God as father of his people
head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan
ancestor
1. grandfather, forefathers - of person
2. of people
originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
of producer, generator (figuratively)
of benevolence and protection (figuratively)
term of respect and honour
ruler or chief (specifically)

Origin: a root

TWOT entry: 4a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

Strong's Definition: 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-"

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (1213x)

A Father (7x)

A Prince (1x)

Above All That Their Fathers (1x)

According To All That His Father (6x)

According To All That His Fathers (2x)

According To Their Fathers (1x)

According To Their Fathers’ (1x)

After Thy Father’s (1x)

Against Me: They And Their Fathers (1x)

Against My Father’s (1x)

Against Thee: Both I And My Father’s (1x)

Against Us, Because Our Fathers (1x)

Against Your Fathers (1x)

All His Father’s (1x)

All Our Fathers (1x)

Also Our Fathers (2x)

Also To Their Father (1x)

Also, The Father (1x)

And All His Father’s (3x)

And All My Father’s (1x)

And All Thy Father’s (1x)

And Be Not Ye Like Your Fathers (1x)

And Fatherless (1x)

And For His Father (1x)

And From Thy Father’s (1x)

And He Shall Be A Father (1x)

And Her Father (4x)

And Her Father’s (1x)

And His Father (11x)

And His Father’s (1x)

And I Will Be His Father (1x)

And If His Father (1x)

And It Shall Be, When Their Fathers (1x)

And Might Not Be As Their Fathers (1x)

And My Father’s (1x)

And Now Whereas My Father (1x)

And Of His Father’s (1x)

And Of My Father’s (1x)

And On All His Father’s (1x)

And On Our Fathers (1x)

And Our Father (1x)

And Our Fathers (3x)

And That Which Thy Fathers (1x)

And The Father (5x)

And The Fathers (2x)

And Their Father (4x)

And Their Fathers (1x)

And Thy Father (3x)

And Thy Father’s (3x)

And To His Father (1x)

And To Our Fathers (1x)

And Unto His Father’s (1x)

And Upon Thy Father’s (1x)

And When The Father (1x)

And When Thy Father (1x)

And Your Father (2x)

And Your Fathers (1x)

And, Lo, Thy Father (1x)

As All My Fathers (1x)

As His Father (2x)

As His Fathers (1x)

As My Father (1x)

As Their Fathers (1x)

As Thy Father (1x)

As Your Fathers (1x)

At Thy Father’s (1x)

Be On Me, And On My Father’s (1x)

Be With Thee, As He Hath Been With My Father (1x)

Be With Us, As He Was With Our Fathers (1x)

Be Ye Not As Your Fathers (1x)

Because His Father (2x)

Behold, My Father (1x)

Behold, Thy Father (1x)

Between My Father (2x)

Between The Father (1x)

But Her Father (1x)

But His Father (2x)

But If Her Father (1x)

But Not Like His Father (1x)

But They And Our Fathers (1x)

But Thou And Thy Father’s (1x)

But Thou, And Thy Father’s (1x)

By Father (1x)

By His Father (1x)

By My Father (1x)

By Their Father (1x)

Did Not Thy Father (1x)

Doth My Father (1x)

Even As A Father (1x)

Even The Fathers (1x)

Father (20x)

Fathers (17x)

Father’s (2x)

For A Father (1x)

For His Father (4x)

For I Am A Father (1x)

For I Was My Father’s (1x)

For My Father (2x)

For Our Fathers (1x)

100

For She Had Neither Father (1x)

101

For The Fathers (3x)

102

For Their Father (1x)

103

For Thy Father (1x)

104

For Us In Our Father’s (1x)

105

For Your Fathers (1x)

106

For, Lo, Our Fathers (1x)

107

From Him Unto Her Father’s (1x)

108

From My Father’s (2x)

109

From Our Father (1x)

110

From Thee: But Your Fathers (1x)

111

From Their Fathers (1x)

112

From Thy Father (1x)

113

Have Your Fathers (1x)

114

He Was The Father (2x)

115

He, And His Father’s (1x)

116

Her And Her Father (1x)

117

Her Father (3x)

118

Her Father’s (2x)

119

Her, Because Her Father (1x)

120

Him Concerning His Father (1x)

121

Him Into Her Father’s (1x)

122

Him To His Father (1x)

123

Him With His Fathers (4x)

124

Him; But His Father (1x)

125

Himself For His Father (1x)

126

His Father (90x)

127

His Fathers (1x)

128

His Father’s (16x)

129

How Our Fathers (1x)

130

I Pray Thee, Be Against Me, And Against My Father’s (1x)

131

I Will Be His Father (2x)

132

If Her Father (2x)

133

If Thy Father (1x)

134

In All Wherein My Father (1x)

135

In Her Father’s (4x)

136

In His Father’s (3x)

137

In My Father’s (1x)

138

In Our Father’s (1x)

139

In The Room Of His Father (2x)

140

In Thy Fathers (1x)

141

In Thy Father’s (1x)

142

In Your Fathers’ (1x)

143

Instead Of His Father (1x)

144

Instead Of Thy Fathers (1x)

145

It Me: And Why Should My Father (1x)

146

It To Your Fathers (1x)

147

It Unto Your Fathers (1x)

148

Lest My Father (1x)

149

Let My Father (2x)

150

Like As A Father (1x)

151

Like Their Fathers (1x)

152

Me A Father (1x)

153

Me Also, O My Father (2x)

154

Me Before Thy Father (1x)

155

Me Out Of My Father’s (1x)

156

Me To Thy Father (1x)

157

Me With My Fathers (1x)

158

Me, My Father (1x)

159

More Than Their Fathers (1x)

160

Moreover, My Father (1x)

161

My Desire (1x)

162

My Father (63x)

163

My Father’s (4x)

164

Neither Shall The Father (1x)

165

No More, The Fathers (1x)

166

Nor His Fathers’ (1x)

167

Nor Of Thy Father’s (1x)

168

Nor Our Fathers (1x)

169

Nor Thy Fathers’ (1x)

170

Not He Thy Father (1x)

171

Not His Father (2x)

172

Not On Thee, And On All Thy Father’s (1x)

173

Not So, My Father (1x)

174

Not Their Father’s (1x)

175

Not Unto Your Fathers (1x)

176

Not When His Father (1x)

177

Not Your Fathers (1x)

178

Not, Neither Did Thy Fathers (1x)

179

O My Father (1x)

180

Of A Chief (2x)

181

Of A Father (1x)

182

Of Fathers (1x)

183

Of Her Father (3x)

184

Of Her Father’s (2x)

185

Of His Father (23x)

186

Of His Fathers (16x)

187

Of His Father’s (2x)

188

Of His Patrimony (1x)

189

Of My Father (13x)

190

Of My Fathers (5x)

191

Of My Fathers’ (2x)

192

Of Our Father (5x)

193

Of Our Fathers (13x)

194

Of The Father (6x)

195

Of The Fathers (44x)

196

Of Their Father (11x)

197

Of Their Fathers (85x)

198

Of Their Fathers’ (1x)

199

Of Their Father’s (2x)

200

Of Their Forefathers (1x)

201

Of Thy Father (19x)

202

Of Thy Fathers (8x)

203

Of Thy Father’s (7x)

204

Of Your Father (3x)

205

Of Your Fathers (21x)

206

On His Father’s (1x)

207

On Me, And On My Father’s (1x)

208

Our Father (12x)

209

Our Fathers (8x)

210

Our Father’s (2x)

211

Out Of My Father’s (1x)

212

Over Thy Fathers (1x)

213

Principal (1x)

214

So His Father (1x)

215

Such As His Father (1x)

216

Surely Our Fathers (1x)

217

Than My Fathers (1x)

218

Than My Father’s (2x)

219

Than Their Fathers (1x)

220

Than Thy Father (1x)

221

Than Your Fathers (1x)

222

That His Father (4x)

223

That His Fathers (1x)

224

That My Fathers (1x)

225

That Their Father (3x)

226

That Thy Father (3x)

227

That Your Fathers (1x)

228

The Father (55x)

229

The Fathers (5x)

230

The Things That His Father (1x)

231

The Which Their Fathers (1x)

232

Thee Above Thy Fathers (1x)

233

Thee And Thy Father’s (1x)

234

Thee To Thy Fathers (1x)

235

Thee Unto Thy Fathers (1x)

236

Their Father (18x)

237

Their Fathers (9x)

238

Their Fathers’ (2x)

239

Their Father’s (6x)

240

Them Which My Fathers (2x)

241

Them, And Concerning Their Fathers (1x)

242

Them, My Father (1x)

243

Themselves: But For Father (1x)

244

Then His Father (2x)

245

Then Shall His Father (1x)

246

Then Shall The Father (1x)

247

Therefore The Fathers (1x)

248

Therein, As Their Fathers (1x)

249

Thereto: My Father (1x)

250

They And Their Father (1x)

251

They, Ye, Nor Your Fathers (1x)

252

Thou, And All Thy Father’s (1x)

253

Thou, Nor Thy Fathers (1x)

254

Throughout Their Fathers’ (1x)

255

Thus His Father (1x)

256

Thy Father (39x)

257

Thy Fathers (2x)

258

Thy Father’s (9x)

259

To Her Father (1x)

260

To His Father (4x)

261

To His Father’s (3x)

262

To My Father (5x)

263

To My Father’s (1x)

264

To Their Father (1x)

265

To Their Fathers (5x)

266

To Them And To Their Fathers (1x)

267

To Thy Father (1x)

268

To Thy Fathers (1x)

269

To Thy Father’s (1x)

270

To You And To Your Fathers (3x)

271

To Your Fathers (2x)

272

Unto Her Father (3x)

273

Unto Her Father’s (1x)

274

Unto Him, My Father (1x)

275

Unto His Father (15x)

276

Unto His Father’s (3x)

277

Unto Me, My Father (1x)

278

Unto My Father’s (3x)

279

Unto Our Fathers (7x)

280

Unto The Father (1x)

281

Unto Thee And To Thy Fathers (1x)

282

Unto Their Fathers (14x)

283

Unto Them And To Their Fathers (1x)

284

Unto Them, Because Your Fathers (1x)

285

Unto Thy Father (1x)

286

Unto Thy Fathers (13x)

287

Unto Thy Father’s (1x)

288

Unto You And To Your Fathers (1x)

289

Unto Your Father (1x)

290

Unto Your Fathers (10x)

291

Upon His Father’s (1x)

292

Upon Us, Because Our Fathers (1x)

293

Us, And Our Fathers (1x)

294

We And Our Fathers (1x)

295

We, And Our Fathers (1x)

296

When Her Father (1x)

297

When My Father (1x)

298

When Your Fathers (1x)

299

Where Our Fathers (1x)

300

Wherein His Father (1x)

301

Wherein Your Fathers (1x)

302

Which His Father (1x)

303

Which His Fathers (1x)

304

Which His Father’s (1x)

305

Which My Father (1x)

306

Which Neither Thou Nor Thy Fathers (2x)

307

Which Neither Thy Fathers (1x)

308

Which Our Fathers (2x)

309

Which Their Fathers (2x)

310

Which Thy Father (1x)

311

Which Thy Fathers (4x)

312

Which Your Fathers (2x)

313

Whom His Fathers (1x)

314

Whom My Fathers (1x)

315

Whom Neither They Nor Their Fathers (2x)

316

Whom Your Fathers (1x)

317

Whose Fathers (1x)

318

With Her Father (1x)

319

With Her Father’s (1x)

320

With His Fathers (46x)

321

With His Father’s (2x)

322

With Me, And Be Unto Me A Father (1x)

323

With My Father (2x)

324

With My Fathers (1x)

325

With Our Father (2x)

326

With Our Fathers (3x)

327

With Thee, And Thou Shalt Be A Father (1x)

328

With Their Fathers (3x)

329

With Thy Fathers (3x)

330

With Your Fathers (3x)

331

Ye A Father (1x)

332

Ye Nor Your Fathers (1x)

333

Ye Not What I And My Fathers (1x)

334

Ye, And Your Fathers (1x)

335

Yet His Father (1x)

336

Yet In This Your Fathers (1x)

337

You And Your Fathers (1x)

338

You, When Your Fathers (1x)

339

Your Father (9x)

340

Your Fathers (12x)

341

Your Father’s (1x)

All Occurrences

Judges 21:22

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.(h)

Ruth 2:11

And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

Ruth 4:17

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

1 Samuel 2:25

If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the Lord , who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

1 Samuel 2:27

And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord , Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house?

1 Samuel 2:28

And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?

1 Samuel 2:30

Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Samuel 2:31

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

1 Samuel 9:3

And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

1 Samuel 9:5

And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

1 Samuel 9:20

And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?(l)

1 Samuel 10:2

When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?(a)

1 Samuel 10:12

And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?(h)

1 Samuel 12:6

And Samuel said unto the people, It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.(c)

1 Samuel 12:7

Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord , which he did to you and to your fathers.(d)

(e)

1 Samuel 12:8

When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the Lord , then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

1 Samuel 12:15

But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord , but rebel against the commandment of the Lord , then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was against your fathers.

1 Samuel 14:1

Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.(a)

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

1 Samuel 14:28

Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.(i)

1 Samuel 14:29

Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

1 Samuel 14:51

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

1 Samuel 17:15

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth–lehem.

1 Samuel 17:25

And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.

1 Samuel 17:34

And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:(n)

1 Samuel 18:2

And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.

1 Samuel 18:18

And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

1 Samuel 19:2

But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

1 Samuel 19:3

And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.

1 Samuel 19:4

And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

1 Samuel 20:1

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?

1 Samuel 20:2

And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.(a)

1 Samuel 20:3

And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H1

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1