Strong's Concordance H1

Original Word: אָב
Transliteration: ʼâb
Phonetic Spelling: awb
a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application; chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.

Usages throughout the bible

Genesis 2:24 - Therefore shall a man leave his father H1 and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 4:20 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father H1 of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

Genesis 4:21 - And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father H1 of all such as handle the harp and organ.

Genesis 9:18 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father H1 of Canaan.

Genesis 9:22 - And Ham, the father H1 of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, H1 and told his two brethren without.

Genesis 9:23 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; H1 and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's H1 nakedness.

Genesis 10:21 - Unto Shem also, the father H1 of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

Genesis 11:28 - And Haran died before his father H1 Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Genesis 11:29 - And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father H1 of Milcah, and the father H1 of Iscah.

Genesis 12:1 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's H1 house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Genesis 15:15 - And thou shalt go to thy fathers H1 in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 17:4 - As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father H1 of many nations.

Genesis 17:5 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father H1 of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 19:31 - And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father H1 is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

Genesis 19:32 - Come, let us make our father H1 drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. H1

Genesis 19:33 - And they made their father H1 drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; H1 and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19:34 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: H1 let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. H1

Genesis 19:35 - And they made their father H1 drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19:36 - Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. H1

Genesis 19:37 - And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father H1 of the Moabites unto this day.

Genesis 19:38 - And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father H1 of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Genesis 20:12 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, H1 but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 20:13 - And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's H1 house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

Genesis 22:7 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, H1 and said, My father: H1 and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Genesis 22:21 - Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father H1 of Aram,

Genesis 24:7 - The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's H1 house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

Genesis 24:23 - And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's H1 house for us to lodge in?

Genesis 24:38 - But thou shalt go unto my father's H1 house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

Genesis 24:40 - And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's H1 house:

Genesis 26:3 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; H1

Genesis 26:15 - For all the wells which his father's H1 servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, H1 the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

Genesis 26:18 - And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; H1 for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father H1 had called them.

Genesis 26:24 - And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: H1 fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

Genesis 27:6 - And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father H1 speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

Genesis 27:9 - Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, H1 such as he loveth:

Genesis 27:10 - And thou shalt bring it to thy father, H1 that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

Genesis 27:12 - My father H1 peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

Genesis 27:14 - And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father H1 loved.

Genesis 27:18 - And he came unto his father, H1 and said, My father: H1 and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

Genesis 27:19 - And Jacob said unto his father, H1 I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Genesis 27:22 - And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; H1 and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

Genesis 27:26 - And his father H1 Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

Genesis 27:30 - And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, H1 that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Genesis 27:31 - And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, H1 and said unto his father, H1 Let my father H1 arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.

Genesis 27:32 - And Isaac his father H1 said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.

Genesis 27:34 - And when Esau heard the words of his father, H1 he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, H1 Bless me, even me also, O my father. H1

Genesis 27:38 - And Esau said unto his father, H1 Hast thou but one blessing, my father? H1 bless me, even me also, O my father. H1 And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

Genesis 27:39 - And Isaac his father H1 answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

Genesis 27:41 - And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father H1 blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father H1 are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Genesis 28:2 - Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; H1 and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.