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

Numbers 12:14 וְאָבִ֙יהָ֙

But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
Numbers 13:2 אֲבֹתָיו֙

“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
Numbers 14:18 אָבוֹת֙

‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
Numbers 14:23 לַאֲבֹתָ֑ם

not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
Numbers 17:2 אָ֜באֲבֹתָ֔ם

“Speak to the Israelites and take from them twelve staffs, one from the leader of each tribe. Write each man’s name on his staff,
Numbers 17:3 אֲבוֹתָֽם׃

and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.
Numbers 17:6 אֲבֹתָ֔ם

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff—one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. And Aaron’s staff was among them.
Numbers 18:1 אָבִ֙יךָ֙

So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary. And you and your sons alone must bear the iniquity involving your priesthood.
Numbers 18:2 אָבִ֙יךָ֙

But bring with you also your brothers from the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and assist you and your sons before the Tent of the Testimony.
Numbers 20:15 אֲבֹתֵ֙ינוּ֙וְלַאֲבֹתֵֽינוּ׃

how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,
Numbers 25:14 אָ֖ב

The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
Numbers 25:15 אָ֛ב

And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
Numbers 26:2 אֲבֹתָ֑ם

“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
Numbers 26:55 אֲבֹתָ֖ם

Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
Numbers 27:3 אָבִינוּ֮

“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
Numbers 27:4 אָבִ֙ינוּ֙אָבִֽינוּ׃

Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”
Numbers 27:7 אֲבִיהֶ֑םאֲבִיהֶ֖ן

“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
Numbers 27:10 אָבִֽיו׃

If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
Numbers 27:11 לְאָבִיו֒

And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
Numbers 30:3 אָבִ֖יהָ

And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,
Numbers 30:4 אָבִ֜יהָאָבִ֑יהָ

and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
Numbers 30:5 אָבִ֣יהָאָבִ֖יהָ

But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
Numbers 30:16 אָ֣באָבִֽיהָ׃פ

These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.
Numbers 31:26 אֲב֥וֹת

“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.
Numbers 32:8 אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֑ם

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
Numbers 32:14 אֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם

Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
Numbers 32:28 אֲב֥וֹת

So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the family leaders of the tribes of Israel.
Numbers 33:54 אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.
Numbers 34:14 אֲבֹתָ֔םאֲבֹתָ֑ם

For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance.
Numbers 36:1 הָֽאָב֗וֹתאָב֖וֹת

Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them,
Numbers 36:3 אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ

But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
Numbers 36:4 אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ

And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
Numbers 36:6 אֲבִיהֶ֖ם

This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
Numbers 36:7 אֲבֹתָ֔יו

No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers 36:8 אָבִ֖יהָאֲבֹתָֽיו׃

Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers 36:12 אֲבִיהֶֽן׃

They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.
Deuteronomy 1:8 לַאֲבֹ֨תֵיכֶ֜ם

See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
Deuteronomy 1:11 אֲבֽוֹתֵכֶ֗ם

May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
Deuteronomy 1:21 אֲבֹתֶ֙יךָ֙

See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 1:35 לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
Deuteronomy 4:1 אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:31 אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
Deuteronomy 4:37 אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
Deuteronomy 5:3 אֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
Deuteronomy 5:9 אָב֧וֹת

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,
Deuteronomy 5:16 אָבִ֙יךָ֙

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 6:3 אֲבֹתֶ֙יךָ֙

Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Deuteronomy 6:10 לַאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ

And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
Deuteronomy 6:18 לַאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
Deuteronomy 6:23 לַאֲבֹתֵֽינוּ׃

But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.