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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 →
Psalms 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. Psalms 106:7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. Psalms 109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Proverbs 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. Proverbs 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. Proverbs 4:3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep thy father' s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 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 13:1 A wise son heareth his father' s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. Proverbs 15:5 A fool despiseth his father' s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. Proverbs 17:6 Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. Proverbs 17:21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy. Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD. Proverbs 19:26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. Proverbs 20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. Proverbs 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. Proverbs 23:24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Proverbs 23:25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. Proverbs 27:10 Thine own friend, and thy father' s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother' s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off. Proverbs 28:7 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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