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)

Translation

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Concordance 1,060 verses

2 Kings 13:14 אָבִ֣י׀אָבִ֔י

When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, saying, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”
2 Kings 13:25 אָבִ֖יו

Then Jehoash son of Jehoahaz took back from Ben-hadad son of Hazael the cities that Hazael had taken in battle from his father Jehoahaz. Jehoash defeated Ben-hadad three times, and so recovered the cities of Israel.
2 Kings 14:3 אָבִ֑יואָבִ֖יו

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.
2 Kings 14:5 אָבִֽיו׃

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
2 Kings 14:6 אָב֤וֹתאָב֔וֹת

Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
2 Kings 14:16 אֲבֹתָ֔יו

And Jehoash rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. And his son Jeroboam reigned in his place.
2 Kings 14:20 אֲבֹתָ֖יו

They carried him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.
2 Kings 14:21 אָבִ֥יו

Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings 14:22 אֲבֹתָֽיו׃פ

Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
2 Kings 14:29 אֲבֹתָ֔יו

And Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. And his son Zechariah reigned in his place.
2 Kings 15:3 אָבִֽיו׃

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 15:7 אֲבֹתָ֔יואֲבֹתָ֖יו

And Azariah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in the City of David. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
2 Kings 15:9 אֲבֹתָ֑יו

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
2 Kings 15:22 אֲבֹתָ֑יו

And Menahem rested with his fathers, and his son Pekahiah reigned in his place.
2 Kings 15:34 אָבִ֖יו

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.
2 Kings 15:38 אֲבֹתָ֔יואֲבֹתָ֔יואָבִ֑יו

And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David his father. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.
2 Kings 16:2 אָבִֽיו׃

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
2 Kings 16:20 אֲבֹתָ֔יואֲבֹתָ֖יו

And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
2 Kings 17:13 אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם

Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
2 Kings 17:14 אֲבוֹתָ֔ם

But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
2 Kings 17:15 אֲבוֹתָ֔ם

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
2 Kings 17:41 אֲבֹתָם֙

So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
2 Kings 18:3 אָבִֽיו׃

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
2 Kings 19:12 אֲבוֹתַ֔י

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
2 Kings 20:5 אָבִ֔יךָ

“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 20:17 אֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ

The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
2 Kings 20:21 אֲבֹתָ֑יו

And Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21:3 אָבִ֑יו

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
2 Kings 21:8 לַֽאֲבוֹתָ֑ם

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
2 Kings 21:15 אֲבוֹתָם֙

because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
2 Kings 21:18 אֲבֹתָ֔יו

And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21:20 אָבִֽיו׃

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
2 Kings 21:21 אָבִ֑יואָבִ֔יו

He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
2 Kings 21:22 אֲבֹתָ֑יו

He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
2 Kings 22:2 אָבִ֔יו

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
2 Kings 22:13 אֲבֹתֵ֗ינוּ

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
2 Kings 22:20 אֲבֹתֶ֗יךָ

‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
2 Kings 23:30 אָבִֽיו׃פ

From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.
2 Kings 23:32 אֲבֹתָֽיו׃

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
2 Kings 23:34 אָבִ֔יו

Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
2 Kings 23:37 אֲבֹתָֽיו׃

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done.
2 Kings 24:6 אֲבֹתָ֑יו

And Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
2 Kings 24:9 אָבִֽיו׃

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father had done.
1 Chronicles 2:17 וַאֲבִ֣י

Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
1 Chronicles 2:21 אֲבִ֣י

Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.
1 Chronicles 2:23 אֲבִי־

But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:24 אֲבִ֥י

After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
1 Chronicles 2:42 אֲבִי־אֲבִ֥י

The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and Mareshah his second son, who was the father of Hebron.
1 Chronicles 2:44 אֲבִ֣י

Shema was the father of Raham the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.
1 Chronicles 2:45 אֲבִ֥י

The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.