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
901–950 of 1,059
- Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
- Psalms 106:7Our 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 109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
- Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- Proverbs 3:12For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
- Proverbs 4:1Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
- Proverbs 4:3For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
- Proverbs 6:20My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- Proverbs 10:1The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
- Proverbs 13:1A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
- Proverbs 15:5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- Proverbs 15:20A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
- Proverbs 17:6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
- Proverbs 17:21He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
- Proverbs 17:25A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Proverbs 19:14House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
- Proverbs 19:26He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
- Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- Proverbs 22:28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
- Proverbs 23:22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- Proverbs 23:24The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
- Proverbs 23:25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
- Proverbs 27:10Thine 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 neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
- Proverbs 28:7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
- Proverbs 28:24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
- Proverbs 29:3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
- Proverbs 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
- Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
- Isaiah 3:6When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
- Isaiah 7:17The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
- Isaiah 8:4For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
- Isaiah 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 14:21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
- Isaiah 22:21And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
- Isaiah 22:23And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
- Isaiah 22:24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
- Isaiah 37:12Have 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 Telassar?
- Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
- Isaiah 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
- Isaiah 39:6Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
- Isaiah 43:27Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
- Isaiah 45:10Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
- Isaiah 51:2Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
- Isaiah 58:14Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
- Isaiah 63:16Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
- Isaiah 64:8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
- Isaiah 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
- Isaiah 65:7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
- Jeremiah 2:5Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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.