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 35:14 אֲבִיהֶ֑ם

The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!
Jeremiah 35:15 וְלַאֲבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם

Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
Jeremiah 35:16 אֲבִיהֶ֖ם

Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.
Jeremiah 35:18 אֲבִיכֶ֑ם

Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
Jeremiah 44:3 וַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
Jeremiah 44:9 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם

Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah 44:10 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ס

To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
Jeremiah 44:17 וַאֲבֹתֵ֙ינוּ֙

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
Jeremiah 44:21 וַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם

“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?
Jeremiah 47:3 אָבוֹת֙

at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.
Jeremiah 50:7 אֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם

All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
Lamentations 5:3 אָ֔ב

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
Lamentations 5:7 אֲבֹתֵ֤ינוּ

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
Ezekiel 2:3 וַאֲבוֹתָם֙

“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
Ezekiel 5:10 אָב֞וֹתאֲבוֹתָ֑ם

As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
Ezekiel 16:3 אָבִ֥יךְ

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:45 וַאֲבִיכֶ֖ן

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 18:2 אָבוֹת֙

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
Ezekiel 18:4 הָאָ֛ב

Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
Ezekiel 18:14 אָבִ֖יו

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
Ezekiel 18:17 אָבִ֖יו

He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
Ezekiel 18:18 אָבִ֞יו

As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
Ezekiel 18:19 הָאָ֑ב

Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
Ezekiel 18:20 הָאָ֗בוְאָב֙

The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
Ezekiel 20:4 אֲבוֹתָ֖ם

Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers
Ezekiel 20:18 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙

In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:24 אֲבוֹתָ֔ם

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
Ezekiel 20:27 אֲב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם

Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by their unfaithfulness against Me.
Ezekiel 20:30 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
Ezekiel 20:36 אֲב֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם

Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 20:42 לַאֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers.
Ezekiel 22:7 אָ֤ב

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
Ezekiel 22:10 אָ֖ב

In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
Ezekiel 22:11 אָבִ֖יו

One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
Ezekiel 36:28 לַאֲבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 37:25 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
Ezekiel 44:25 לְאָ֡ב

A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
Ezekiel 47:14 לַאֲבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם

You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with an uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will fall to you as an inheritance.
Daniel 9:6 וַאֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Daniel 9:8 וְלַאֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
Daniel 9:16 אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ

O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
Daniel 11:24 אֲבֹתָיו֙וַאֲב֣וֹתאֲבֹתָ֔יו

In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.
Daniel 11:37 אֲבֹתָיו֙

He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers, nor for the one desired by women, nor for any other god, because he will magnify himself above them all.
Daniel 11:38 אֲבֹתָ֗יו

And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his fathers did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.
Hosea 9:10 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
Joel 1:2 אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם׃

Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?
Amos 2:4 אֲבוֹתָ֖ם

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
Amos 2:7 וְאָבִ֗יו

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
Micah 7:6 אָ֔ב

For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
Micah 7:20 לַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.