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אָב H1

ʼâb — chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.. Appears in 1,060 verses. Full definition →
Genesis 24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. Genesis 24:23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father' s house for us to lodge in? Genesis 24:38 But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son. Genesis 24:40 And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house: Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; Genesis 26:15 For all the wells which his father' s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. Genesis 26:18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. Genesis 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham' s sake. Genesis 27:6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, Genesis 27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: Genesis 27:10 And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. 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 27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. 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 27:19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. Genesis 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob' s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. Genesis 27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. Genesis 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. Genesis 27:31 And he also had made savory meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son' s venison, that thy soul may bless me. Genesis 27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau. Genesis 27:34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 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 27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. 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.

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