Strong's Concordance

אָב

ʼâb/awb/
H1hebrew

Part of speech

Definition

a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

KJV usage

chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'

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All occurrences in KJV

1,061 verses

  1. For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

  2. With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

  3. Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

  4. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

  5. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

  6. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

  7. (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  8. My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

  9. Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

  10. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

  11. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

  12. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

  13. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  14. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

  15. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

  16. Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

  17. He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  18. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

  19. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

  20. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

  21. And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

  22. Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

  23. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

  24. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

  25. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.