Strong's Hebrew · H1

אָב

ʼâb · awb

Definitionfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Derivationa primitive word;
KJV usagechief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
Occurrences1,214 in the KJV · 1,060 verses

אָב in Scripture

Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. Genesis 4:21 And his brother' s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Genesis 9:18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. Genesis 9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father' s nakedness. Genesis 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born. Genesis 11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. Genesis 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram' s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor' s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: Genesis 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
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