H1

אב

אב

ahba

Masculine noun · A root

A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application:—chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.

Outline

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 (fig.)
of benevolence and protection (fig.)
term of respect and honour
ruler or chief (spec.)

Usages (18/22)

Ezra 9:7

Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto 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 a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

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Ezra 10:11

Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

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Ezra 10:16

And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

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Nehemiah 2:3

And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

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Nehemiah 2:5

And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.

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Nehemiah 7:61

And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

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Nehemiah 7:70

¶ And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.

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Nehemiah 7:71

And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.

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Nehemiah 8:13

¶ And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.

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Nehemiah 9:2

And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

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Nehemiah 9:9

And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;

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Nehemiah 9:16

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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Nehemiah 9:23

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

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Nehemiah 9:34

Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

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Nehemiah 9:36

Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

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Nehemiah 10:34

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

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Nehemiah 11:13

And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

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Nehemiah 12:12

And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

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Nehemiah 12:22

¶ The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.

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Nehemiah 12:23

The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

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Nehemiah 13:18

Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

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Esther 2:7

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

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Esther 4:14

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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Job 8:8

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

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Job 15:10

With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

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Job 15:18

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

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Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

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Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

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Job 30:1

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

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Younger than I The Edomites are younger than the Israelites. derision To mock. ...disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock For risk that they might have sex with the dog.

Precepts

Genesis 3:14

Who are the Edomites

Genesis 25:25 Genesis 27:11 Genesis 27:40 Job 9:24 Psalms 49:11 Psalms 55:21 Jeremiah 49:16 Obadiah 1:3 2 Esdras 6:9 Revelation 12:10

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Job 31:18

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

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Job 34:36

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

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Job 38:28

Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

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Job 42:15

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

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Psalms 22:4

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

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Psalms 27:10

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

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Psalms 39:12

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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Psalms 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

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Psalms 45:10

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

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Psalms 45:16

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

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Psalms 49:19

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

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Psalms 68:5

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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Psalms 78:3

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

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Psalms 78:5

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

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Psalms 78:8

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

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Psalms 78:12

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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Psalms 78:57

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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Psalms 89:26

He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

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Psalms 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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