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 28:7 אָבִ֖יו

and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Genesis 28:8 אָבִֽיו׃

And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Genesis 28:13 אָבִ֔יךָ

And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
Genesis 28:21 אָבִ֑י

so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
Genesis 29:9 לְאָבִ֔יהָ

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Genesis 29:12 אָבִ֙יהָ֙לְאָבִֽיהָ׃

He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.
Genesis 31:1 לְאָבִ֑ינוּלְאָבִ֔ינוּ

Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
Genesis 31:3 אֲבוֹתֶ֖יךָ

Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
Genesis 31:5 אֲבִיכֶ֔ןאָבִ֔י

and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:6 אֲבִיכֶֽן׃

You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Genesis 31:7 וַאֲבִיכֶן֙

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Genesis 31:9 אֲבִיכֶ֖ם

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
Genesis 31:14 אָבִֽינוּ׃

And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
Genesis 31:16 מֵֽאָבִ֔ינוּ

Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
Genesis 31:18 אָבִ֖יו

and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
Genesis 31:19 לְאָבִֽיהָ׃

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Genesis 31:29 אֲבִיכֶ֜ם

I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Genesis 31:30 אָבִ֑יךָ

Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31:35 אָבִ֗יהָ

Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
Genesis 31:42 אָבִי֩

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
Genesis 31:53 אֲבִיהֶ֑םאָבִ֥יו

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Genesis 32:9 אָבִ֣יאָבִ֣י

Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
Genesis 33:19 אֲבִ֣י

And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
Genesis 34:4 אָבִ֖יו

So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
Genesis 34:6 אֲבִֽי־

Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
Genesis 34:11 אָבִ֣יה

Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
Genesis 34:13 אָבִ֛יו

But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
Genesis 34:19 אָבִֽיו׃

The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
Genesis 35:18 וְאָבִ֖יו

And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:22 אָבִ֑֔יו

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Genesis 35:27 אָבִ֔יו

Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Genesis 36:9 אֲבִ֣י

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.
Genesis 36:24 אָבִֽיו׃

These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
Genesis 36:43 אֲבִ֥י

Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.
Genesis 37:1 אָבִ֑יו

Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:2 אָבִ֑יואֲבִיהֶֽם׃

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
Genesis 37:4 אֲבִיהֶם֙

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:10 אָבִיו֮אָבִ֔יו

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
Genesis 37:11 וְאָבִ֖יו

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
Genesis 37:12 אֲבִיהֶ֖ם

Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
Genesis 37:22 אָבִֽיו׃

“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
Genesis 37:32 אֲבִיהֶ֔ם

They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
Genesis 37:35 אָבִֽיו׃

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Genesis 38:11 אָבִ֗יךְאָבִֽיהָ׃

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
Genesis 41:51 אָבִֽי׃

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
Genesis 42:13 אָבִ֙ינוּ֙

But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
Genesis 42:29 אֲבִיהֶ֖ם

When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
Genesis 42:32 אָבִ֑ינוּאָבִ֖ינוּ

We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Genesis 42:35 וַאֲבִיהֶ֖ם

As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.
Genesis 42:36 אֲבִיהֶ֔ם

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”