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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  1. Deuteronomy 33:9 לְאָבִ֤יו

    He said of his father and mother, ‘I do not consider them.’ He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

  2. Joshua 1:6 לַאֲבוֹתָ֖ם

    Be strong and courageous, for you shall give these people the inheritance of the land that I swore to their fathers I would give them.

  3. Joshua 2:12 אָבִי֙

    Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign

  4. Joshua 2:13 אָבִ֣י

    that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death.”

  5. Joshua 2:18 אָבִ֨יךְאָבִ֔יךְ

    unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.

  6. Joshua 4:21 אֲבוֹתָ֣ם

    Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

  7. Joshua 5:6 לַֽאֲבוֹתָם֙

    For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  8. Joshua 6:23 אָבִ֨יהָ

    So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

  9. Joshua 6:25 אָבִ֤יהָ

    And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.

  10. Joshua 14:1 אֲב֥וֹת

    Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.

  11. Joshua 15:13 אֲבִ֥י

    According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

  12. Joshua 15:18 אָבִ֙יהָ֙

    One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

  13. Joshua 17:1 אֲבִ֣י

    Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.

  14. Joshua 17:4 אֲבִיהֶֽן׃

    They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” So Joshua gave them an inheritance among their father’s brothers, in keeping with the command of the LORD.

  15. Joshua 18:3 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

    So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you put off entering and possessing the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?

  16. Joshua 19:47 אֲבִיהֶֽם׃

    (Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there, and renamed it after their father Dan.)

  17. Joshua 19:51 הָֽאָב֣וֹת

    These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.

  18. Joshua 21:1 אֲב֣וֹתאֲב֥וֹת

    Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribes of Israel

  19. Joshua 21:11 אֲבִ֧י

    They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.)

  20. Joshua 21:43 לַאֲבוֹתָ֑ם

    Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.

  21. Joshua 21:44 לַאֲבוֹתָ֑ם

    And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

  22. Joshua 22:14 אָ֔באֲבוֹתָ֛ם

    With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.

  23. Joshua 22:28 אֲבוֹתֵ֗ינוּ

    Therefore we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD that our fathers made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’

  24. Joshua 24:2 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙אֲבִ֥יוַאֲבִ֣י

    And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

  25. Joshua 24:3 אֲבִיכֶ֤ם

    But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

  26. Joshua 24:6 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם

    When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.

  27. Joshua 24:14 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם

    Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

  28. Joshua 24:15 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם

    But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

  29. Joshua 24:17 אֲבוֹתֵ֛ינוּ

    For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.

  30. Joshua 24:32 אֲבִֽי־

    And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

  31. Judges 1:14 אָבִ֙יהָ֙

    One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

  32. Judges 2:1 לַאֲבֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם

    Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

  33. Judges 2:10 אֲבוֹתָ֑יו

    After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.

  34. Judges 2:12 אֲבוֹתָ֗ם

    Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

  35. Judges 2:17 אֲבוֹתָ֛ם

    Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.

  36. Judges 2:19 מֵֽאֲבוֹתָ֔ם

    But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

  37. Judges 2:20 אֲבוֹתָ֔ם

    So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,

  38. Judges 2:22 אֲבוֹתָ֖ם

    In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”

  39. Judges 3:4 אֲבוֹתָ֖ם

    These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.

  40. Judges 6:13 אֲבוֹתֵ֜ינוּ

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

  41. Judges 6:15 אָבִֽי׃

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

  42. Judges 6:25 לְאָבִ֔יךָלְאָבִ֔יךָ

    On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

  43. Judges 6:27 אָבִ֜יו

    So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.

  44. Judges 8:32 אָבִ֔יו

    Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  45. Judges 9:1 אֲבִ֥י

    Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,

  46. Judges 9:5 אָבִיו֙

    He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

  47. Judges 9:17 אָבִ֖י

    for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,

  48. Judges 9:18 אָבִי֙

    but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—

  49. Judges 9:28 אֲבִ֣י

    Then Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? You are to serve the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem. Why should we serve Abimelech?

  50. Judges 9:56 לְאָבִ֔יו

    In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

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