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

Jeremiah 2:27 אָ֣בִי

say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
Jeremiah 3:4 אָבִ֑י

Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
Jeremiah 3:18 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
Jeremiah 3:19 אָבִי֙

Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
Jeremiah 3:24 אֲבוֹתֵ֖ינוּ

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.
Jeremiah 3:25 וַאֲבוֹתֵ֔ינוּ

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”
Jeremiah 6:21 אָב֨וֹת

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
Jeremiah 7:7 לַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:14 וְלַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
Jeremiah 7:18 וְהָֽאָבוֹת֙

The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:22 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙

For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
Jeremiah 7:25 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙

From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
Jeremiah 7:26 מֵאֲבוֹתָֽם׃

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
Jeremiah 9:14 אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ס

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
Jeremiah 9:16 וַֽאֲבוֹתָ֑ם

I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
Jeremiah 11:4 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֡ם

which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
Jeremiah 11:5 לַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם

This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
Jeremiah 11:7 בַּאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם

For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
Jeremiah 11:10 אֲבוֹתָ֜םאֲבוֹתָֽם׃ס

They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
Jeremiah 12:6 אָבִ֗יךָ

Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
Jeremiah 13:14 וְהָאָב֧וֹת

I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”
Jeremiah 14:20 אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ

We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.
Jeremiah 16:3 אֲבוֹתָ֛ם

For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
Jeremiah 16:7 אָבִ֖יו

No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
Jeremiah 16:11 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֤ם

Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
Jeremiah 16:12 מֵאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
Jeremiah 16:13 וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
Jeremiah 16:15 לַאֲבוֹתָֽם׃ס

Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
Jeremiah 16:19 אֲבוֹתֵ֔ינוּ

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
Jeremiah 17:22 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
Jeremiah 19:4 וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם

because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Jeremiah 20:15 אָבִי֙

Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
Jeremiah 22:11 אָבִ֔יו

For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
Jeremiah 22:15 אָבִ֜יךָ

Does it make you a king to excel in cedar? Did not your father have food and drink? He administered justice and righteousness, and so it went well with him.
Jeremiah 23:27 אֲבוֹתָ֛ם

They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
Jeremiah 23:39 וְלַאֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
Jeremiah 24:10 וְלַאֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃פ

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
Jeremiah 25:5 וְלַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
Jeremiah 30:3 לַאֲבוֹתָ֖ם

For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
Jeremiah 31:9 לְאָ֔ב

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
Jeremiah 31:29 אָב֖וֹת

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
Jeremiah 31:32 אֲבוֹתָ֔ם

It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 32:18 אָב֔וֹת

You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,
Jeremiah 32:22 לַאֲבוֹתָ֖ם

You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jeremiah 34:5 אֲ֠בוֹתֶיךָ

you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
Jeremiah 34:13 אֲב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:
Jeremiah 34:14 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
Jeremiah 35:6 אָבִ֗ינוּ

“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
Jeremiah 35:8 אָבִ֔ינוּ

And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
Jeremiah 35:10 אָבִֽינוּ׃

But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.