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Strong’s H1 · Hebrew

אָב

ʼâb · awb

Origin a primitive word;

Meaning father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

In the King James Version chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.

In 1,059 verses of the King James Version

601–650 of 1,059

  1. 2 Kings 13:14Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
  2. 2 Kings 13:25And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
  3. 2 Kings 14:3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
  4. 2 Kings 14:5And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
  5. 2 Kings 14:6But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
  6. 2 Kings 14:16And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
  7. 2 Kings 14:20And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
  8. 2 Kings 14:21And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
  9. 2 Kings 14:22He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
  10. 2 Kings 14:29And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
  11. 2 Kings 15:3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
  12. 2 Kings 15:7So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
  13. 2 Kings 15:9And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
  14. 2 Kings 15:22And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
  15. 2 Kings 15:34And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
  16. 2 Kings 15:38And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
  17. 2 Kings 16:2Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
  18. 2 Kings 16:20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
  19. 2 Kings 17:13Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
  20. 2 Kings 17:14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
  21. 2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
  22. 2 Kings 17:41So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
  23. 2 Kings 18:3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
  24. 2 Kings 19:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
  25. 2 Kings 20:5Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.
  26. 2 Kings 20:17Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
  27. 2 Kings 20:21And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  28. 2 Kings 21:3For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
  29. 2 Kings 21:8Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
  30. 2 Kings 21:15Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
  31. 2 Kings 21:18And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
  32. 2 Kings 21:20And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
  33. 2 Kings 21:21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
  34. 2 Kings 21:22And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
  35. 2 Kings 22:2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
  36. 2 Kings 22:13Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
  37. 2 Kings 22:20Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
  38. 2 Kings 23:30And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
  39. 2 Kings 23:32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
  40. 2 Kings 23:34And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
  41. 2 Kings 23:37And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
  42. 2 Kings 24:6So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
  43. 2 Kings 24:9And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
  44. 1 Chronicles 2:17And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
  45. 1 Chronicles 2:21And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
  46. 1 Chronicles 2:23And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
  47. 1 Chronicles 2:24And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
  48. 1 Chronicles 2:42Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
  49. 1 Chronicles 2:44And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.
  50. 1 Chronicles 2:45And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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