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)

Occurrences of "My Father"

Genesis 22:7

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?(b)

Genesis 27:12

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

Genesis 27:18

And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

Genesis 27:38

And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Genesis 44:24

And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Genesis 44:27

And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

Genesis 44:30

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

Genesis 44:32

For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

Genesis 44:34

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.(d)

Genesis 45:13

And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

Genesis 47:1

Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 50:5

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

Joshua 2:13

And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

Judges 14:16

And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

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 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 20:12

And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;(e)

(f)

1 Samuel 20:13

The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.(g)

1 Samuel 23:17

And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.

1 Kings 2:24

Now therefore, as the Lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

1 Kings 2:26

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.(f)

1 Kings 2:32

And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

1 Kings 2:44

The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

1 Kings 3:6

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.(a)

1 Kings 3:7

And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

1 Kings 5:3

Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 5:5

And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.(b)

1 Kings 8:15

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

1 Kings 8:17

And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

1 Kings 8:18

And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

1 Kings 8:20

And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

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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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Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1