אָב
Part of speech
A noun names a person, place, thing, or abstract idea. In Biblical Hebrew, nouns carry grammatical gender and inflect for number, governing the agreement of adjectives and verbs around them. Here it is grammatically masculine.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-'
All occurrences in KJV
1,061 verses
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.