אָב
father
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H1
Strong's Hebrew
ʼâb
Transliteration
/awb/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
1,213
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
father of an individual
- of God as father of his people
- head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan
- ancestor
- grandfather, forefathers - of person
- of people
- originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
- of producer, generator (figuratively)
- of benevolence and protection (figuratively)
- term of respect and honour
- ruler or chief (specifically)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
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2 Kings 57 verses
- 2 Kings 18:3 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.
- 2 Kings 19:12 אֲבוֹתַ֔/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
- 2 Kings 20:5 אָבִ֔י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 20:17 אֲבֹתֶ֛י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 20:21 אֲבֹתָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 21:3 אָבִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
- 2 Kings 21:8 לַֽ/אֲבוֹתָ֑/ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only 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.
- 2 Kings 21:15 אֲבוֹתָ/ם֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even to this day.
- 2 Kings 21:18 אֲבֹתָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms 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 place.
- 2 Kings 21:20 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father.
- 2 Kings 21:21 אָבִ֑י/ו אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:
- 2 Kings 21:22 אֲבֹתָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk in the way of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 22:2 אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- 2 Kings 22:13 אֲבֹתֵ֗י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Go you, inquire of Yahweh 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 Yahweh that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.
- 2 Kings 22:20 אֲבֹתֶ֗י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.
- 2 Kings 23:30 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
- 2 Kings 23:32 אֲבֹתָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.
- 2 Kings 23:34 אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.
- 2 Kings 23:37 אֲבֹתָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.
- 2 Kings 24:6 אֲבֹתָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 24:9 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father had done.
1 Chronicles 64 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:17 וַ/אֲבִ֣י conj + n c ms cs Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
- 1 Chronicles 2:21 אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took [as wife] when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 אֲבִי n c ms cs Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages of it, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 2:24 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
- 1 Chronicles 2:42 אֲבִי אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs n c ms cs The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
- 1 Chronicles 2:44 אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
- 1 Chronicles 2:45 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
- 1 Chronicles 2:49 אֲבִ֣י אֲבִ֥י וַ/אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs n c ms cs conj + n c ms cs She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
- 1 Chronicles 2:50 אֲבִ֖י n c ms cs These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
- 1 Chronicles 2:51 אֲבִ֣י אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs n c ms cs Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
- 1 Chronicles 2:52 אֲבִ֖י n c ms cs Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
- 1 Chronicles 2:55 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
- 1 Chronicles 4:3 אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs These were [the sons of] the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
- 1 Chronicles 4:4 אֲבִ֣י אֲבִ֣י אֲבִ֖י n c ms cs n c ms cs n c ms cs and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
- 1 Chronicles 4:5 אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- 1 Chronicles 4:11 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
- 1 Chronicles 4:12 אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah.
- 1 Chronicles 4:14 אֲבִי֙ n c ms cs Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen.
- 1 Chronicles 4:17 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
- 1 Chronicles 4:18 אֲבִ֤י אֲבִ֣י אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs n c ms cs n c ms cs His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
- 1 Chronicles 4:19 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
- 1 Chronicles 4:21 אֲבִ֣י אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs n c ms cs The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
- 1 Chronicles 4:38 אֲב֣וֹתֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses increased greatly.
- 1 Chronicles 5:1 אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
- 1 Chronicles 5:13 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֗ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 5:15 אֲבוֹתָֽ/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 5:24 אֲבוֹתָ֑/ם אֲבוֹתָֽ/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 5:25 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֑ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
- 1 Chronicles 6:19 לַ/אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
- 1 Chronicles 7:2 אֲבוֹתָ/ם֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 7:4 אֲבוֹתָ֗/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
- 1 Chronicles 7:9 אֲבוֹתָ֔/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 7:14 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:
- 1 Chronicles 7:22 אֲבִי/הֶ֖ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
- 1 Chronicles 7:31 אֲבִ֥י n c ms cs The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
- 1 Chronicles 8:29 אֲבִ֣י n c ms cs In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, [Jeiel], whose wife's name was Maacah;
- 1 Chronicles 9:9 אָב֖וֹת אֲבֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their brothers, according to their generations, nine hundred fifty-six. All these men were heads of fathers' [houses] by their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 9:13 אֲבוֹתָ֔/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:19 אָבִ֣י/ו וַ/אֲבֹֽתֵי/הֶם֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers of the entry.
- 1 Chronicles 9:35 אֲבִֽי n c ms cs In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah:
- 1 Chronicles 12:17 אֲבוֹתֵ֖י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
- 1 Chronicles 12:28 אָבִ֥י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.
- 1 Chronicles 12:30 אֲבוֹתָֽ/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand eight hundred, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 17:11 אֲבֹתֶ֔י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
- 1 Chronicles 19:2 אָבִ֤י/ו אָבִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shown kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
- 1 Chronicles 19:3 אָבִ֨י/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you that David does honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Aren't his servants come to you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
- 1 Chronicles 21:17 אָבִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.
- 1 Chronicles 23:24 אֲבֹתֵי/הֶ֜ם הָ/אָב֣וֹת n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp ptcl def.art + n c mp These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' [houses] of those of those who were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward.
- 1 Chronicles 24:2 אֲבִי/הֶ֔ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
- 1 Chronicles 24:4 אָבוֹת֙ אֲבוֹתָ֖/ם n c mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp There were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.
- 1 Chronicles 24:19 אֲבִי/הֶ֑ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
- 1 Chronicles 24:30 אֲבֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers' houses.
- 1 Chronicles 25:3 אֲבִי/הֶ֤ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 25:6 אֲבִי/הֶ֨ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
- 1 Chronicles 26:6 אֲבִי/הֶ֑ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.
- 1 Chronicles 26:10 אָבִ֖י/הוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief),
- 1 Chronicles 26:13 אֲבוֹתָ֖/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.
- 1 Chronicles 28:4 אָבִ֗/י אָבִ֑/י אָבִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever: for he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel;
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 אָבִ֜י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
- 1 Chronicles 29:10 אָבִ֔י/נוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cp Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 אֲבֹתֵ֑י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
- 1 Chronicles 29:18 אֲבֹתֵ֔י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart to you;
- 1 Chronicles 29:20 אֲבֹֽתֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp David said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahweh your God. All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshiped Yahweh, and the king.
- 1 Chronicles 29:23 אָבִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
2 Chronicles 99 verses
- 2 Chronicles 1:8 אָבִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Solomon said to God, You have shown great loving kindness to David my father, and have made me king in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 1:9 אָבִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
- 2 Chronicles 2:3 אָבִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me].
- 2 Chronicles 2:7 אָבִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all manner of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
- 2 Chronicles 2:14 וְ/אָבִ֣י/ו אָבִֽי/ךָ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any manner of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be [a place] appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
- 2 Chronicles 2:17 אָבִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
- 2 Chronicles 3:1 אָבִ֑י/הוּ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 2 Chronicles 5:1 אָבִ֗י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 6:4 אָבִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 6:7 אָבִ֑/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:8 אָבִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 אָבִ֜/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:15 אָבִ֔/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
- 2 Chronicles 6:16 אָבִ/י֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.
- 2 Chronicles 6:25 וְ/לַ/אֲבֹתֵי/הֶֽם conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 6:31 לַ/אֲבֹתֵֽי/נוּ prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 6:38 לַ/אֲבוֹתָ֔/ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:
- 2 Chronicles 7:17 אָבִ֔י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
- 2 Chronicles 7:18 אָבִ֨י/ךָ֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 7:22 אֲבֹתֵי/הֶ֗ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.
- 2 Chronicles 8:14 אָ֠בִי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
- 2 Chronicles 9:31 אֲבֹתָ֔י/ו אָבִ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 10:4 אָבִ֖י/ךָ אָבִ֜י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.
- 2 Chronicles 10:6 אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people?
- 2 Chronicles 10:9 אָבִ֖י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms He said to them, What counsel give you, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?
- 2 Chronicles 10:10 אָבִ֨י/ךָ֙ אָבִֽ/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
- 2 Chronicles 10:11 אָבִ/י֙ אָבִ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
- 2 Chronicles 10:14 אָבִ֗/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
- 2 Chronicles 11:16 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 12:16 אֲבֹתָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 13:12 אֲבֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't you fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.
- 2 Chronicles 13:18 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 14:1 אֲבֹתָ֗י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
- 2 Chronicles 14:4 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֑ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
- 2 Chronicles 15:12 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֑ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
- 2 Chronicles 15:18 אָבִ֛י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
- 2 Chronicles 16:3 אָבִ֖/י אָבִ֑י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms [There is] a league between me and you, as [there was] between my father and your father: behold, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
- 2 Chronicles 16:13 אֲבֹתָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
- 2 Chronicles 17:2 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
- 2 Chronicles 17:3 אָבִי/ו֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals,
- 2 Chronicles 17:4 אָבִי/ו֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 17:14 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֑ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp This was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 20:6 אֲבֹתֵ֨י/נוּ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp and he said, Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren't you God in heaven? and aren't you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.
- 2 Chronicles 20:32 אָבִ֥י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 20:33 אֲבֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 21:1 אֲבֹתָ֔י/ו אֲבֹתָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 21:3 אֲ֠בִי/הֶם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3mp Their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.
- 2 Chronicles 21:4 אָבִי/ו֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and various also of the princes of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 21:10 אֲבֹתָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day: then did Libnah revolt at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 21:12 אָבִ֔י/ךָ אָבִ֔י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms There came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
- 2 Chronicles 21:13 אָבִ֛י/ךָ n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:
- 2 Chronicles 21:19 אֲבֹתָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 22:4 אָבִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
- 2 Chronicles 24:18 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
- 2 Chronicles 24:22 אָבִי/ו֙ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, Yahweh look on it, and require it.
- 2 Chronicles 24:24 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֑ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.
- 2 Chronicles 25:3 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.
- 2 Chronicles 25:28 אֲבֹתָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 26:1 אָבִ֥י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
- 2 Chronicles 26:2 אֲבֹתָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 26:4 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
- 2 Chronicles 26:23 אֲבֹתָ֗י/ו אֲבֹתָי/ו֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 27:2 אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.
- 2 Chronicles 27:9 אֲבֹתָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 28:1 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he didn't do that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his father;
- 2 Chronicles 28:6 אֲבוֹתָֽ/ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 28:9 אֲבוֹתֵי/כֶ֛ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet the host that came to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
- 2 Chronicles 28:25 אֲבֹתָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 28:27 אֲבֹתָ֗י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 29:2 אָבִֽי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.
- 2 Chronicles 29:5 אֲבֹתֵי/כֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 אֲבֹתֵ֗י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.
- 2 Chronicles 29:9 אֲבוֹתֵ֖י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
- 2 Chronicles 30:7 כַּ/אֲבֽוֹתֵי/כֶם֙ אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֑ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Don't be you like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
- 2 Chronicles 30:8 כַּ/אֲבוֹתֵי/כֶ֑ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
- 2 Chronicles 30:19 אֲבוֹתָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though not [cleansed] according to the purification of the sanctuary.
- 2 Chronicles 30:22 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 31:17 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;
- 2 Chronicles 32:13 וַ/אֲבוֹתַ֔/י conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?
- 2 Chronicles 32:14 אֲבוֹתַ֔/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
- 2 Chronicles 32:15 אֲבוֹתָ֑/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?
- 2 Chronicles 32:33 אֲבֹתָ֗י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 אָבִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:8 לַ/אֲבֹֽתֵי/כֶ֑ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12 אֲבֹתָֽי/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 33:20 אֲבֹתָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 33:22 אָבִ֑י/ו אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:23 אָבִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He didn't humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
- 2 Chronicles 34:2 אָבִ֔י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 אָבִ֑י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.
- 2 Chronicles 34:21 אֲבוֹתֵ֨י/נוּ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28 אֲבֹתֶ֗י/ךָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 2ms Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.
- 2 Chronicles 34:32 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it]. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 34:33 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 35:4 אֲבוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
- 2 Chronicles 35:24 אֲבֹתָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
- 2 Chronicles 36:1 אָבִ֖י/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 36:15 אֲבוֹתֵי/הֶ֧ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:
Ezra 7 verses
- Ezra 2:59 אֲבוֹתָ/ם֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp These were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, [and] Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:
- Ezra 7:27 אֲבוֹתֵ֑י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem;
- Ezra 8:1 אֲבֹתֵי/הֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Now these are the heads of their fathers' [houses], and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
- Ezra 8:28 אֲבֹתֵי/כֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp I said to them, You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill-offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.
- Ezra 9:7 אֲבֹתֵ֗י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
- Ezra 10:11 אֲבֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.
- Ezra 10:16 הָ/אָב֛וֹת אֲבֹתָ֖/ם ptcl def.art + n c mp n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Nehemiah 13 verses
- Nehemiah 1:6 אָבִ֖/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:
- Nehemiah 2:3 אֲבֹתַ/י֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
- Nehemiah 2:5 אֲבֹתַ֖/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.
- Nehemiah 7:61 אֲבוֹתָ/ם֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp These were those who went up from Tel-melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:
- Nehemiah 9:2 אֲבֹתֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
- Nehemiah 9:9 אֲבֹתֵ֖י/נוּ n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,
- Nehemiah 9:16 וַ/אֲבֹתֵ֖י/נוּ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and didn't listen to your commandments,
- Nehemiah 9:23 לַ/אֲבֹתֵי/הֶ֖ם prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Nehemiah 9:32 וְ/לַ/אֲבֹתֵ֖י/נוּ conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cp Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
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“father” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun אב (ʼâb). Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It turns up in 1,060 verses across 31 books, one of the most common footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 2:24. It clusters with אב, אוב and אבי under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
chief
Modern gloss
father
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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About this word
Strong's H1 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1,060
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,060 distinct verses.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #30
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 30 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1,060 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 170 verses 16%
- 2 Chronicles 110 verses 10%
- 1 Chronicles 87 verses 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1,060 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 413 verses · 39%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 351 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 296 verses · 28%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Father 517×, Fathers 417×, Father's 93×
- American Standard Version†: Father 532×, Fathers 397×, According to their fathers 12×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Father 482×, Fathers 327×, Father’s 120×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Father 608×, Fathers 443×, Father of 68×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1 across 1,212† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 117 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1 across 1,212† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 172 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1 across 1,165† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 77 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 46 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1 across 1,203† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
9 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 9 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. father of individual Gn 2:24 (+ אֵם) 11:28, 29(×2); 19:31, 32, 33, + often (mostly JED); of father as commanding Gn 50:16 (J) Je 35:6 f Pr 6:20 (cf. Gn 18:19 J 28:1, 6 P 1 S 17:20 1 K 2:1); instructing מוסר Pr 1:8; 4:1 (cf. Dt 8:5); specif. as begetter, genitor Pr 23:22 Zc 13:3(×2) (+ אֵם) Is 45:10; cf. Gn 49:4 (J) Lv 18:7, 8, 11 (P); rebuking Gn 37:10; loving Gn 37:4; 44:20 (JE; cf. 22:2; 25:28; 37:3 2 S 14:1); pitying ψ 103:13 (in sim. cf. 2 S 18:5); blessing Gn 27:41 (JE cf. 27:4 also 28:1 P +); as glad Pr 10:1; 15:20 cf. 29:3; grieving Gn 37:35 (JE; cf. 2 S 12:22; 19:1, 2 f) etc. Also as obj. of honour, obedience, love Ex 20:12 (E) = Dt 5:16; Ex 21:15, 17 (E) Dt 21:18, 19 Gn 28:7 (P), 50:1, 5 1 K 19:20 (all + אֵם) (J) Mal 1:6 etc. Hence metaph. of intimate connection Jb 17:14 to corruption I cry, My father art thou (‖ אִמִּי וַאֲחֹתִי לָֽרִמָּה). e.g. Genesis 2:24
- 2. of God as father of his people (v. RSSem 42), who constituted, controls, guides and lovingly watches over it: Dt 32:6 Je 3:4, 19; 31:9 Is 63:16(×2); 64:7 Mal 1:6; 2:10 (cf. Ex 4:22; 19:4 (JE) Dt 32:11 Ho 11:1); cf. Je 2:27 (of idolatr. Isr.) אֹמְרִים לָעֵץ אָבִי אַתָּה וְלָאֶבֶן אַתְּ ילדתני׃; especially God as father of Davidic line 2 S 7:14 ψ 89:27; f. of needy (late) ψ 68:6 (cf. 103:13) (in n.pr., f. of individ., cf. infr.) e.g. Deuteronomy 32:6
- 3. head of household, family or clan; בֵּית אָבִי as abode Gn 38:11(×2) Lv 22:13 +; = family Gn 24:40 (‖ מִשְׁפַחְתִּי) 41:51; 46:31 + cf. Nu 18:1, 2 Jos 2:12, 18; 6:25; especially techn. of divisions of Isr. בֵּית אָב לְמִשְׁפָּחוֹת Nu 3:30, 35 = a father’s house, i.e. a family or clan; more often pl. (אבותם, אבותיו) בֵית אָבוֹת = fathers’ houses = families, clans (cf. Di on Ex 6:14) Ex 6:14; 12:3 Nu 1:2, 18 ff. (often in Nu) Jos 22:14(×2) without בית Jos 14:1; 19:51; 21:1(×2) (always P in Hex.); also 1 Ch 5:13, 15 + often in Ch; cf. רָאשֵׁי אבות הלוים (= ר׳ בית א׳) Ex 6:25 cf. 1 K 8:1 1 Ch 6:4; 7:11 + often Ch Ezr Ne. e.g. Genesis 38:11
- 4. ancestor (a) of individual; grandfather (instead of precise term) Gn 28:13; 32:10 (J; where used of Abr. & Isaac); greatgr. 1 K 15:3; gr.-greatgr. 1 K 15:11, 24 etc.; cf. 2 K 14:3; 15:38; 16:2; 18:3; 22:2; often pl. (= fathers, forefathers) Gn 15:15; 46:34 (JE) 1 K 19:4; 21:3, 4 2 K 19:12; 20:17 +; particularly שׁכב עם אבותיו 1 K 1:21; 2:10; 11:21; 22:40 +; joined with ויקבר עם אב׳ 1 K 14:31; 15:24; 22:51 2 K 8:24; 15:38 cf. v 7, 16:20 + (all of kings of Judah); intens., אֲבֹתֶיךָ וַאֲבוֹת אֲבֹתֶיךָ Ex 10:6 cf. Dn 11:24; (b) of people Gn 10:21 (J) 17:4, 5 (P) 19:37, 38 (J) 36:9, 43 (P) Dt 26:5 Is 51:2; 43:27 (where אביך הראשׁון thy first father, v. Che) cf. also Ez 16:3, 45 + often; pl. Ex 3:13, 15, 16 (E) Dt 1:8 Jos 1:6 Ju 2:1 1 S 12:6 +; 1 S 12:15 ad fin read וּבְמַלְכְּכֶם 𝔊 We Dr. e.g. Genesis 28:13
- 5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art Gn 4:20, 21. e.g. Genesis 4:20
- 6. fig. of producer, generator Jb 38:28 הֲיֵשׁ לַמָּטָר אָ֑ב (‖ מִי־הוֹלִיד אֶגְלֵי־טָֽל׃). e.g. Job 38:28
- 7. fig. of benevolence & protection Jb 29:16 אָב אָֽנֹכִי לָֽאֶבְיוֹנִים, cf. 31:18; of Eliakim Is 22:21; perhaps also of gracious Mess. king אֲבִי עַד Is 9:5 everlasting father (Ge Ew De Che Brd Di)—others divider of spoil (Abarb Hi Kn KueBrMP). e.g. Job 29:16
- 8. term of respect & honour (Abbas, Pater, Papa, Pope); appl. to master 2 K 5:13; priest Ju 17:10; 18:19; prophet 2 K 2:12(×2); 6:21; 13:14(×2) cf. 8:9; counsellor Gn 45:8 (E; cf. δευτέρου πατρός 𝔊 add. Est 3:13; τῷ πατρί 1 Mac 11:32); king 1 S 24:12; artificer 2 Ch 2:12; 4:16. e.g. 2 Kings 5:13
- 9. specif., ruler, chief (late) 1 Ch 2:24, 42(×2) etc. (cf. Ew§ 273b). See also EwGesch. i. 524 H i. 365. On the force of אָב in proper names (in many prob. a divine title), v. CheEncy. Bib., abi, names with Nöib., names, §§ 44, 45. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:24
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. father (Ph. אב, Assyrian abu, Arabic أَبٌ, Sab. אב CISiv, 1. 37 1. 2 al. Ethiopic አብ Aramaic אַבָּא, ܐܰܒܳܐ )—abs. אָב Gn 44:19 + 47 times; cstr. אַב Gn 17:4, 5 (cf. in אַבְרָהָם ib. & elsewhere in n.pr. On Hal’s proposes אֲבִר v. אברהם); אֲבִי (cf. Ge§§ 90, 3b, 96) Gn 4:20 +; sf. אָבִי Gn 19:34 + (MI אבי); אָבִיךָ Gn 12:1 +; אָבִיו Gn 2:24 +; אָבִ֫יהוּ Ju 14:10 + 6 times; pl. אָבוֹת Ex 12:3 +; cstr. אֲבוֹת Ex 6:25 + 7 times; sf. אֲבוֹתַי (אֲבֹתַי, אֲבוֹתָ֑י) Gn 47:9 + 15 times; אֲבוֹתֵיהֶם 1 Ch 4:38 + 32 times (late); אֲבוֹתָם Ex 4:5 + 106 times etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַב־
- a prefix of words of Greek origin answering to αὐ-, au-, e.g. אבטומטוס = αὐτόματος; or to εὐ, e.g. אבגינוס = εὐγενής.
אָב I
- (Assyr. A-bu, Schr. K. A. T., p. 247) Ab, the fifth month of the Jewish calendar (of thirty days) beginning between the eighth of July and the seventh of August, and ending between the sixth of August and the fifth of September. R. Hash. I, 3, על אב וכ׳ for announcing the beginning of Ab messengers are sent out, for the sake of the fast. Ib. 18ᵇ ט׳ באב the ninth of Ab, anniversary of Temple destruction. Taan. IV, 6 משנכנס אב with the beginning of Ab. Ib. 29ᵇ לישתמיט מיניה באב let him try to be relieved of (the law-suit) in Ab. Meg. 5ᵇ; a. e.
אָב II
- , const. אֲבִי, אַב [embracer], father, ancestor, progenitor; teacher; chief, leader; author, originator. Ex. R. s. 46 end המגדל אב the educator is the real father. Lev. R. s. 1 אבי החכמה וכ׳, the father of all wisdom, … the father of prophets. Y. Ned. V, 39ᵇ; a. fr.—אַב בית דין (abbr. אב"ד) president of the Court (Great Sanhedrin), next in dignity to the Nassi. Taan. II, 1; a. fr.—Metaph. origin, cause. Num. R. s. 10 (play on אֲבוֹי, Prov. XXIII, 29) א׳ אוי the cause of woe (sin).—אב מלאכה (for which also עיקר) one of the chief labors forbidden on the Sabbath, opp. תולדה a labor the prohibition of which is based on the ground of its being a species of the former, or derived from the former. Sabb. VII, 1 sq.; a. fr.—[Y. Sabb. II, 5ᵃ, אב שלה, sub. מלאכה.]—אב הטומאה one of the original or direct causes of levitical uncleanness, opp. ולד (child) secondary cause. Toh. I, 5; a. fr.—א׳ הנזק v. Pl.—בנין א׳ creation of a class, i.e. a conclusion, by analogy, from a case explicitly stated in the bibl. law on all similar cases not specified in detail. Sifra introd.—Ib. K’doshim, end, ch. 11 (ref. to Lev. XX, 27) זה ב׳ א׳ לכל דמיהם בם this forms the rule for all cases in which the Bible uses the word d’mēhem bam (that the penalty is stoning to death); a. fr.; v. also בֵּית אב.—Pl. אָבוֹת־, const. אֲבוֹת, e.g. Proverbs 23:29
- 1. fathers, ancestors, patriarchs &c. Ber. 26ᵇ prayers א׳ תקנום have been instituted by the Patriarchs; a. fr.—אבות בתי דינין, v. supra. Ḥag. II, 2.—בת א׳ a woman of noble descent. Num. R. s. 1; a. e.—Metaph. principal, chief א׳ מלאכות, v. supra. א׳ הטומא׳ Kel. I, 1; v. supra.—א׳ נזיקין (sing. אב הנזק) the chief actionable injuries or damages, from which the subordinate are deduced (תולדות). B. Kam. I, 1; a. e.
- 2. Aboth, the first section of the Prayer of Benedictions (v. תְּפִלָּה), so called because it alludes to the Patriarchs. R. Hash. IV, 5; a. fr.
- 3. Aboth, name of a treatise of the Mishnah, containing sayings of Talmudic authorities and belonging to the fourth section, נזיקין, of the Mishnah collection (משניות); also styled פִּרְקֵי א׳ a. מְסֶכֶת א׳. A similar collection of a later date is contained in Talmud Babli editions, named א׳ דרבי נתן Aboth d’Rabbi Nathan. [Y. Yoma VIII, 44ᵈ top אב בית נפש v. אֲבֵידָה.]
אָב II ²
- ch., v. אַבָּא
אֵב
- swelling, spreading, whence
- 1. the young shoots of a tree, opp. to the branches growing directly from the trunk. B. Kam. 81ᵃ אִיבּוֹ של אילן ed. (Ar. a. Ms. חובו, v. חוֹב II, cmp. Rashi a. l.). [Y. Erub. III, 21ᵃ top איבו; Y. Succ. II, 53ᵃ צידו.]
- 2. pl. אִבִּין, אִיבִּין state of growth, development. Ḥull. 58ᵃ cascuta which became wormy באִבֶּיהָ during its growth. Ib. 127ᵇ figs which shrunk באִבֵּיהֶן during development. Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᶜ bot. he who presses olives מאִבֵּיהֶן from where they grow (before they are ripe to be taken off). [Tosef. Maasr. I, 4 איבין אדומים, Var. אובין, read אוּגִין, v. אוֹג.] Ib. 5 they differ על האיבין concerning the plants in their growing state (between ripening [גמר] and blossoming [הנץ]; Var. אוֹנין incorr.); cmp. יָבַן. Ch. v. אִיבָּא I.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 406 distinct written forms H1 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 346 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- אבי ʼĂbîy H21 Abi
- אביאל ʼĂbîyʼêl H22 Abiel
- אביאסף ʼĂbîyʼâçâph H23 Abiasaph
- אבי גבעון ʼĂbîy Gibʻôwn H25 father of Gibeon
- אביגיל ʼĂbîygayil H26 Abigail
- אבידן ʼĂbîydân H27 Abidan
- אבידע ʼĂbîydâʻ H28 Abida
- אביה ʼĂbîyâh H29 Abijah
- אביהוא ʼĂbîyhûwʼ H30 Abihu
- אביהוד ʼĂbîyhûwd H31 Ahihud
- אביהיל ʼĂbîyhayil H32 Abihail
- אביטוב ʼĂbîyṭûwb H36 Abitub
- אביטל ʼĂbîyṭâl H37 Abital
- אבים ʼĂbîyâm H38 Abijam
- אבימאל ʼĂbîymâʼêl H39 Abimael
- אבימלך ʼĂbîymelek H40 Abimelech
- אבינדב ʼĂbîynâdâb H41 Abinadab
- אבינעם ʼĂbîynôʻam H42 Abinoam
- אביעזר ʼĂbîyʻezer H44 Abiezer
- אביעלבון ʼĂbîy-ʻalbôwn H45 Abialbon
- אבירם ʼĂbîyrâm H48 Abiram
- אבישג ʼĂbîyshag H49 Abishag
- אבישוע ʼĂbîyshûwaʻ H50 Abishua
- אבישור ʼĂbîyshûwr H51 Abishur
+7 more proper names from this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 34 — not the complete family. 31 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1,020 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1,060 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:24
- Exodus 2:16
- Leviticus 16:32
- Numbers 1:2
- Deuteronomy 1:8
- Joshua 1:6
- Judges 1:14
- Ruth 2:11
- 1 Samuel 2:25
- 2 Samuel 2:32
- 1 Kings 1:6
- 2 Kings 2:12
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
