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

Genesis 48:21 אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 49:2 אֲבִיכֶֽם׃

Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
Genesis 49:4 אָבִ֑יךָ

Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
Genesis 49:8 אָבִֽיךָ׃

Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Genesis 49:25 אָבִ֜יךָ

by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
Genesis 49:26 אָבִ֗יךָ

The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
Genesis 49:28 אֲבִיהֶם֙

These are the tribes of Israel, twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
Genesis 49:29 אֲבֹתָ֑י

Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Genesis 50:1 אָבִ֑יו

Then Joseph fell upon his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50:2 אָבִ֑יו

And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
Genesis 50:5 אָבִ֞יאָבִ֖י

my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
Genesis 50:6 אָבִ֖יךָ

Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
Genesis 50:7 אָבִ֑יו

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—
Genesis 50:8 אָבִ֑יו

along with all of Joseph’s household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
Genesis 50:10 לְאָבִ֛יו

When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:14 אָבִ֑יואָבִֽיו׃

After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.
Genesis 50:15 אֲבִיהֶ֔ם

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge? Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
Genesis 50:16 אָבִ֣יךָ

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Before he died, your father commanded,
Genesis 50:17 אָבִ֑יךָ

‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
Genesis 50:22 אָבִ֑יו

Now Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.
Exodus 2:16 אֲבִיהֶֽן׃

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Exodus 2:18 אֲבִיהֶ֑ן

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
Exodus 3:6 אָבִ֔יךָ

Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 3:13 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”
Exodus 3:15 אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
Exodus 3:16 אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶם֙

Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
Exodus 4:5 אֲבֹתָ֑ם

“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
Exodus 6:14 אֲבֹתָ֑ם

These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.
Exodus 6:25 אֲב֥וֹת

Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families by their clans.
Exodus 10:6 אֲבֹתֶ֙יךָ֙וַאֲב֣וֹתאֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ

They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.
Exodus 12:3 אָבֹ֖ת

Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
Exodus 13:5 לַאֲבֹתֶ֙יךָ֙

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
Exodus 13:11 וְלַֽאֲבֹתֶ֑יךָ

And after the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as He swore to you and your fathers,
Exodus 15:2 אָבִ֖י

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Exodus 18:4 אָבִי֙

The other son was named Eliezer, for Moses had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
Exodus 20:5 אָבֹ֧ת

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Exodus 20:12 אָבִ֖יךָ

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Exodus 21:15 אָבִ֛יו

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:17 אָבִ֛יו

Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Exodus 22:17 אָבִ֖יהָ

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
Exodus 34:7 אָב֗וֹת

maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Exodus 40:15 אֲבִיהֶ֔ם

Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may also serve Me as priests. Their anointing will qualify them for a permanent priesthood throughout their generations.”
Leviticus 16:32 אָבִ֑יו

The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest shall make atonement. He will put on the sacred linen garments
Leviticus 18:7 אָבִ֛יךָ

You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
Leviticus 18:8 אָבִ֖יךָאָבִ֖יךָ

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
Leviticus 18:9 אָבִ֙יךָ֙

You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
Leviticus 18:11 אָבִ֙יךָ֙אָבִ֔יךָ

You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
Leviticus 18:12 אָבִ֖יךָאָבִ֖יךָ

You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
Leviticus 18:14 אָבִ֖יךָ

You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.
Leviticus 19:3 וְאָבִיו֙

Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.