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

Deuteronomy 7:8 לַאֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם

But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:12 לַאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 7:13 לַאֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ

He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 8:1 לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8:3 אֲבֹתֶ֑יךָ

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 8:16 אֲבֹתֶ֑יךָ

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
Deuteronomy 8:18 לַאֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ

But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
Deuteronomy 9:5 לַאֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 10:11 לַאֲבֹתָ֖ם

Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
Deuteronomy 10:15 בַּאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
Deuteronomy 10:22 אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ

Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Deuteronomy 11:9 לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶ֛ם

and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:21 לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
Deuteronomy 12:1 אֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ

These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
Deuteronomy 13:6 וַאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Deuteronomy 13:17 לַאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 18:8 הָאָבֽוֹת׃ס

They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
Deuteronomy 19:8 לַאֲבֹתֶ֑יךָלַאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
Deuteronomy 21:13 אָבִ֥יהָ

and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deuteronomy 21:18 אָבִ֖יו

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
Deuteronomy 21:19 אָבִ֣יו

his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
Deuteronomy 22:15 אֲבִ֥י

Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
Deuteronomy 22:16 אֲבִ֥י

and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.
Deuteronomy 22:19 לַאֲבִ֣י

They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Deuteronomy 22:21 אָבִ֗יהָאָבִ֑יהָ

she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:29 לַאֲבִ֥י

then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Deuteronomy 22:30 אָבִ֑יואָבִֽיו׃ס

A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
Deuteronomy 24:16 אָבוֹת֙אָב֑וֹת

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
Deuteronomy 26:3 לַאֲבֹתֵ֖ינוּ

to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
Deuteronomy 26:5 אָבִ֔י

and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
Deuteronomy 26:7 אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ

So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.
Deuteronomy 26:15 לַאֲבֹתֵ֔ינוּ

Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy 27:3 אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ

Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Deuteronomy 27:16 אָבִ֖יו

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:20 אָבִ֔יואָבִ֑יו

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:22 אָבִ֖יו

‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 28:11 לַאֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ

The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:36 וַאֲבֹתֶ֑יךָ

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
Deuteronomy 28:64 וַאֲבֹתֶ֖יךָ

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
Deuteronomy 29:13 לַאֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ

and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29:25 אֲבֹתָ֑ם

And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 30:5 אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָמֵאֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

And the LORD your God will bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more than your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30:9 אֲבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

So the LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He delighted in that of your fathers,
Deuteronomy 30:20 לַאֲבֹתֶ֛יךָ

and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Deuteronomy 31:7 לַאֲבֹתָ֖ם

Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 31:16 אֲבֹתֶ֑יךָ

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:20 לַאֲבֹתָ֗יו

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.
Deuteronomy 32:6 אָבִ֣יךָ

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
Deuteronomy 32:7 אָבִ֙יךָ֙

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
Deuteronomy 32:17 אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.