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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 28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan -aram; Genesis 28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; Genesis 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; Genesis 28:21 So that I come again to my father' s house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: Genesis 29:9 And while he yet spoke with them, Rachel came with her father' s sheep: for she kept them. Genesis 29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father' s brother, and that he was Rebekah' s son: and she ran and told her father. Genesis 31:1 And he heard the words of Laban' s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father' s; and of that which was our father' s hath he gotten all this glory. Genesis 31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. Genesis 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father' s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. Genesis 31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. Genesis 31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. Genesis 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. Genesis 31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father' s house? Genesis 31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children' s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. Genesis 31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan -aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. Genesis 31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father' s. Genesis 31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spoke unto me last night, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. Genesis 31:30 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father' s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? Genesis 31:35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images. Genesis 31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night. Genesis 31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac. Genesis 32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: 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 a hundred pieces of money. Genesis 34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. Genesis 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

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