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

2 Chronicles 26:12 הָאָבוֹת֙

The total number of family leaders of the mighty men of valor was 2,600.
2 Chronicles 26:23 אֲבֹתָ֗יואֲבֹתָיו֙

And Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field of burial that belonged to the kings; for the people said, “He was a leper.” And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 27:2 אָבִ֔יו

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.
2 Chronicles 27:9 אֲבֹתָ֔יו

And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 28:1 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.
2 Chronicles 28:6 אֲבוֹתָֽם׃

For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:9 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם

But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
2 Chronicles 28:25 אֲבֹתָֽיו׃

In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:27 אֲבֹתָ֗יו

And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 29:2 אָבִֽיו׃

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
2 Chronicles 29:5 אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֔ם

“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
2 Chronicles 29:6 אֲבֹתֵ֗ינוּ

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
2 Chronicles 29:9 אֲבוֹתֵ֖ינוּ

For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
2 Chronicles 30:7 כַּאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם

Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.
2 Chronicles 30:8 כַּאֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
2 Chronicles 30:19 אֲבוֹתָ֑יו

who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
2 Chronicles 30:22 אֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃ס

And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 31:17 אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֔ם

and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their duties and divisions.
2 Chronicles 32:13 וַאֲבוֹתַ֔י

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:14 אֲבוֹתַ֔י

Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:15 אֲבוֹתָ֑י

So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
2 Chronicles 32:33 אֲבֹתָ֗יו

And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 33:3 אָבִ֑יו

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
2 Chronicles 33:8 לַאֲבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”
2 Chronicles 33:12 אֲבֹתָֽיו׃

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:20 אֲבֹתָ֔יו

And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 33:22 אָבִ֑יואָבִ֔יו

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
2 Chronicles 33:23 אָבִ֑יו

but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
2 Chronicles 34:2 אָבִ֔יו

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
2 Chronicles 34:3 אָבִ֑יו

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
2 Chronicles 34:21 אֲבוֹתֵ֙ינוּ֙

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
2 Chronicles 34:28 אֲבֹתֶ֗יךָ

‘Now 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 and on its inhabitants.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
2 Chronicles 34:32 אֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:33 אֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃פ

And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 35:4 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.
2 Chronicles 35:5 הָֽאָב֔וֹתאָ֖ב

Moreover, stand in the Holy Place by the divisions of the families of your kinsmen the lay people, and by the divisions of the families of the Levites.
2 Chronicles 35:12 אָבוֹת֙

They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as is written in the Book of Moses; and they did the same with the bulls.
2 Chronicles 35:24 אֲבֹתָ֑יו

So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
2 Chronicles 36:1 אָבִ֖יו

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
2 Chronicles 36:15 אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֧ם

Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
Ezra 1:5 הָאָב֗וֹת

So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
Ezra 2:59 אֲבוֹתָם֙

The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
Ezra 2:68 הָֽאָב֔וֹת

When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.
Ezra 3:12 הָאָב֜וֹת

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.
Ezra 4:2 הָֽאָב֗וֹת

they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
Ezra 4:3 הָֽאָבוֹת֙

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”
Ezra 7:27 אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ

Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
Ezra 8:1 אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם

These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
Ezra 8:28 אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

Then I told them, “You are holy to the LORD, and these articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.
Ezra 8:29 הָאָב֥וֹת

Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”