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

Judges 11:2 אָבִ֔ינוּ

And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”
Judges 11:7 אָבִ֑י

Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
Judges 11:36 אָבִי֙

“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
Judges 11:37 אָבִ֔יהָ

She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
Judges 11:39 אָבִ֔יהָ

After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
Judges 14:2 לְאָבִ֣יו

So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
Judges 14:3 אָבִ֣יואָבִיו֙

But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
Judges 14:4 וְאָבִ֨יו

(Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.)
Judges 14:5 וְאָבִ֥יו

Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother and came to the vineyards of Timnah. Suddenly a young lion came roaring at him,
Judges 14:6 לְאָבִ֣יו

and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
Judges 14:9 אָבִ֣יו

So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
Judges 14:10 אָבִ֖יהוּ

Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
Judges 14:15 אָבִ֖יךְ

So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”
Judges 14:16 לְאָבִ֧י

Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
Judges 14:19 אָבִֽיהוּ׃פ

Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,
Judges 15:1 אָבִ֖יהָ

Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
Judges 15:2 אָבִ֗יהָ

“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
Judges 15:6 אָבִ֖יהָ

“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
Judges 16:31 אָבִיהוּ֮אָבִ֑יו

Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
Judges 17:10 לְאָ֣ב

“Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in
Judges 18:19 לְאָ֣ב

“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
Judges 18:29 אֲבִיהֶ֔ם

They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
Judges 19:2 אָבִ֔יהָ

But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,
Judges 19:3 אָבִ֔יהָאֲבִ֣י

her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
Judges 19:4 אֲבִ֣י

His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.
Judges 19:5 אֲבִ֨י

On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”
Judges 19:6 אֲבִ֤י

So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
Judges 19:8 אֲבִ֣י

On the fifth day, he got up early in the morning to depart, but the girl’s father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.
Judges 19:9 אֲבִ֣י

When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”
Judges 21:22 אֲבוֹתָם֩

When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
Ruth 2:11 אָּבִ֣יךְ

Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
Ruth 4:17 אֲבִי־אֲבִ֥י

The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.
1 Samuel 2:25 אֲבִיהֶ֔ם

If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.
1 Samuel 2:27 אָבִ֔יךָ

Then a man of God came to Eli and told him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Did I not clearly reveal Myself to your father’s house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh’s house?
1 Samuel 2:28 אָבִ֔יךָ

And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.
1 Samuel 2:30 אָבִ֔יךָ

Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
1 Samuel 2:31 אָבִ֑יךָ

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
1 Samuel 9:3 אֲבִ֣י

One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, and Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants and go look for the donkeys.”
1 Samuel 9:5 אָבִ֛י

When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”
1 Samuel 9:20 אָבִֽיךָ׃ס

As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”
1 Samuel 10:2 אָבִ֙יךָ֙

When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
1 Samuel 10:12 אֲבִיהֶ֑ם

Then a man who lived there replied, “And who is their father?” So the saying became a proverb: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
1 Samuel 12:6 אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם

Then Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is the One who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 12:7 אֲבוֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

Now present yourselves, so that I may confront you before the LORD with all the righteous acts He has done for you and your fathers.
1 Samuel 12:8 אֲבֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙אֲבֹֽתֵיכֶם֙

When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
1 Samuel 12:15 וּבַאֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

But if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.
1 Samuel 14:1 וּלְאָבִ֖יו

One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.
1 Samuel 14:27 אָבִיו֮

Jonathan, however, had not heard that his father had charged the people with the oath. So he reached out the end of the staff in his hand, dipped it into the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
1 Samuel 14:28 אָבִ֤יךָ

Then one of the soldiers told him, “Your father bound the troops with a solemn oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ That is why the people are faint.”
1 Samuel 14:29 אָבִ֖י

“My father has brought trouble to the land,” Jonathan replied. “Just look at how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.