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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 →
Job 8:8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: Job 15:10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. Job 15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it : Job 17:14 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. Job 29:16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Job 30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Job 31:18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother' s womb;) Job 38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? Job 42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. Psalms 22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. Psalms 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were . Psalms 44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. Psalms 45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father' s house; Psalms 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. Psalms 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. Psalms 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Psalms 78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Psalms 78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: Psalms 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. Psalms 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. Psalms 78:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. Psalms 89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Psalms 95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Psalms 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

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