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 "Father"

Genesis 28:2

Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

Genesis 33:19

And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.(j)

(k)

Deuteronomy 22:16

And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

Deuteronomy 22:29

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

Judges 9:1

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

Judges 19:4

And his father in law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

Judges 19:5

And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel’s father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.(d)

Judges 19:6

And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel’s father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.

Judges 19:8

And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel’s father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.(e)

Judges 19:9

And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.(f)

(g)

(h)

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.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 15:20

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 19:26

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.(h)

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 43:27

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.(h)

Isaiah 45:10

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

Malachi 1:6

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

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