אָב

av

Hebrew H0001 Noun, masculine 1,213 occurrences in 1,060 verses

אָב father

1. father of an individual

2. of God as father of his people

3. head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan

4. ancestor

a. grandfather, forefathers - of person

b. of people

5. originator or patron of a class, profession, or art

6. of producer, generator (fig.)

7. of benevolence and protection (fig.)

8. term of respect and honour

9. ruler or chief (spec.)

Also means: av (אַב "father" H0002)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 1,060 verses

Genesis 2:24 אָבִ֖יו

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 4:20 אֲבִ֕י

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
Genesis 4:21 אֲבִ֕י

And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
Genesis 9:18 אֲבִ֥י

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:22 אֲבִ֣יאָבִ֑יו

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23 אֲבִיהֶ֑םאֲבִיהֶ֖ם

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 10:21 אֲבִי֙

And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
Genesis 11:28 אָבִ֑יו

During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Genesis 11:29 אֲבִֽי־וַֽאֲבִ֥י

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 12:1 אָבִ֑יךָ

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 15:15 אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ

You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
Genesis 17:4 לְאַ֖ב

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 אַב־

No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Genesis 19:31 אָבִ֣ינוּ

One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Genesis 19:32 אָבִ֛ינוּמֵאָבִ֖ינוּ

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Genesis 19:33 אֲבִיהֶ֛ןאָבִ֔יהָ

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 19:34 אָבִ֑ימֵאָבִ֖ינוּ

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Genesis 19:35 אֲבִיהֶ֖ן

So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 19:36 מֵאֲבִיהֶֽן׃

Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
Genesis 19:37 אֲבִֽי־

The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
Genesis 19:38 אֲבִ֥י

The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Genesis 20:12 אָבִי֙

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
Genesis 20:13 אָבִי֒

So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 22:7 אָבִיו֙אָבִ֔י

Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Genesis 22:21 אֲבִ֥י

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
Genesis 24:7 אָבִי֮

The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24:23 אָבִ֛יךְ

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
Genesis 24:38 אָבִ֛י

but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
Genesis 24:40 אָבִֽי׃

And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
Genesis 26:3 אָבִֽיךָ׃

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:15 אָבִ֔יואָבִ֑יו

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Genesis 26:18 אָבִ֔יואָבִֽיו׃

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
Genesis 26:24 אָבִ֑יךָ

and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
Genesis 27:6 אָבִ֔יךָ

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
Genesis 27:9 לְאָבִ֖יךָ

Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
Genesis 27:10 לְאָבִ֖יךָ

Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
Genesis 27:12 אָבִ֔י

What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Genesis 27:14 אָבִֽיו׃

So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
Genesis 27:18 אָבִ֖יואָבִ֑י

So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
Genesis 27:19 אָבִ֗יו

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:22 אָבִ֖יו

So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Genesis 27:26 אָבִ֑יו

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
Genesis 27:30 אָבִ֑יו

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
Genesis 27:31 לְאָבִ֑יולְאָבִ֗יואָבִי֙

He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:32 אָבִ֖יו

But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
Genesis 27:34 אָבִ֔יולְאָבִ֔יואָבִֽי׃

When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
Genesis 27:38 אָבִ֗יואָבִ֔יאָבִ֑י

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Genesis 27:39 אָבִ֖יו

His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
Genesis 27:41 אָבִ֑יואָבִ֔י

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 28:2 אֲבִ֣י

“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.