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

1 Kings 12:6 - And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father H1 while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?

1 Kings 12:9 - And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father H1 did put upon us lighter?

1 Kings 12:10 - And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father H1 made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's H1 loins.

1 Kings 12:11 - And now whereas my father H1 did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father H1 hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

1 Kings 12:14 - And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father H1 made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father H1 also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

1 Kings 13:11 - Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. H1

1 Kings 13:12 - And their father H1 said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

1 Kings 13:22 - But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. H1

1 Kings 14:15 - For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, H1 and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

1 Kings 14:20 - And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, H1 and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 14:22 - And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers H1 had done.

1 Kings 14:31 - And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:3 - And he walked in all the sins of his father, H1 which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. H1

1 Kings 15:8 - And Abijam slept with his fathers; H1 and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:11 - And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. H1

1 Kings 15:12 - And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers H1 had made.

1 Kings 15:15 - And he brought in the things which his father H1 had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.

1 Kings 15:19 - There is a league between me and thee, and between my father H1 and thy father: H1 behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

1 Kings 15:24 - And Asa slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David his father: H1 and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:26 - And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, H1 and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 16:6 - So Baasha slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 16:28 - So Omri slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 18:18 - And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's H1 house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.

1 Kings 19:4 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. H1

1 Kings 19:20 - And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father H1 and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

1 Kings 20:34 - And Benhadad said unto him, The cities, which my father H1 took from thy father, H1 I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father H1 made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

1 Kings 21:3 - And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers H1 unto thee.

1 Kings 21:4 - And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. H1 And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

2 Kings 2:12 - And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, H1 my father, H1 the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

2 Kings 3:2 - And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, H1 and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father H1 had made.

2 Kings 3:13 - And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, H1 and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

2 Kings 4:18 - And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father H1 to the reapers.

2 Kings 4:19 - And he said unto his father, H1 My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

2 Kings 5:13 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, H1 if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

2 Kings 6:21 - And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, H1 shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

2 Kings 8:24 - And Joram slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 9:25 - Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, H1 the LORD laid this burden upon him;

2 Kings 9:28 - And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers H1 in the city of David.

2 Kings 10:3 - Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's H1 throne, and fight for your master's house.

2 Kings 10:35 - And Jehu slept with his fathers: H1 and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 12:18 - And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, H1 kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 12:21 - For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers H1 in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 13:9 - And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; H1 and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 13:13 - And Joash slept with his fathers; H1 and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

2 Kings 13:14 - Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, H1 my father, H1 the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

2 Kings 13:25 - And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father H1 by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

2 Kings 14:3 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: H1 he did according to all things as Joash his father H1 did.

2 Kings 14:5 - And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father. H1

2 Kings 14:6 - But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers H1 shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; H1 but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

2 Kings 14:16 - And Jehoash slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.