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

1 Samuel 14:51 אֲבִֽי־אֲבִֽי־

Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.
1 Samuel 17:15 אָבִ֖יו

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 17:25 אָבִ֔יו

Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:34 לְאָבִ֖יו

David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
1 Samuel 18:2 אָבִֽיו׃

And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.
1 Samuel 18:18 אָבִ֖י

And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
1 Samuel 19:2 אָבִ֖י

so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
1 Samuel 19:3 אָבִ֗יאָבִ֑י

I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”
1 Samuel 19:4 אָבִ֑יו

Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
1 Samuel 20:1 אָבִ֔יךָ

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
1 Samuel 20:2 אָבִ֜יאָבִ֥י

“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
1 Samuel 20:3 אָבִ֗יךָ

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
1 Samuel 20:6 אָבִ֑יךָ

If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
1 Samuel 20:8 אָבִ֖יךָ

Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
1 Samuel 20:9 אָבִי֙

“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
1 Samuel 20:10 אָבִ֖יךָ

Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
1 Samuel 20:12 אָבִ֗י

and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
1 Samuel 20:13 אָבִ֤יאָבִֽי׃

But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
1 Samuel 20:32 אָבִ֑יו

“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
1 Samuel 20:33 אָבִ֖יו

Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
1 Samuel 20:34 אָבִֽיו׃ס

Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
1 Samuel 22:1 אָבִ֔יו

So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
1 Samuel 22:3 אָבִ֤י

From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
1 Samuel 22:11 אָבִ֛יו

Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.
1 Samuel 22:15 אָבִ֔י

Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
1 Samuel 22:16 אָבִֽיךָ׃

But the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
1 Samuel 22:22 אָבִֽיךָ׃

Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.
1 Samuel 23:17 אָבִ֔יאָבִ֖י

saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”
1 Samuel 24:11 וְאָבִ֣י

See, my father, look at the corner of your robe in my hand. For I cut it off, but I did not kill you. See and know that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands. I have not sinned against you, even though you are hunting me down to take my life.
1 Samuel 24:21 אָבִֽי׃

So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”
2 Samuel 2:32 אָבִ֔יו

Later, they took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.
2 Samuel 3:7 אָבִֽי׃

Meanwhile, Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
2 Samuel 3:8 אָבִ֗יךָ

Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!
2 Samuel 3:29 אָבִ֑יו

May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
2 Samuel 6:21 מֵֽאָבִיךְ֙

But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,
2 Samuel 7:12 אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 7:14 לְאָ֔ב

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
2 Samuel 9:7 אָבִ֔יךָאָבִ֑יךָ

“Do not be afraid,” said David, “for surely I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
2 Samuel 10:2 אָבִ֤יואָבִ֑יו

And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
2 Samuel 10:3 אָבִ֙יךָ֙

the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
2 Samuel 13:5 אָבִ֣יךָ

Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
2 Samuel 14:9 אָבִ֑י

But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
2 Samuel 15:34 אָבִ֤יךָ

But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’
2 Samuel 16:3 אָבִֽי׃

“Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
2 Samuel 16:19 אָבִ֔יךָ

Furthermore, whom should I serve if not the son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”
2 Samuel 16:21 אָבִ֔יךָאָבִ֔יךָ

Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
2 Samuel 16:22 אָבִ֔יו

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 17:8 אָבִ֨יךָוְאָבִ֙יךָ֙

He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
2 Samuel 17:10 אָבִ֔יךָ

Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
2 Samuel 17:23 אָבִֽיו׃ס

When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.