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

2 Chronicles 10:4 - Thy father H1 made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, H1 and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

2 Chronicles 10:6 - And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father H1 while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

2 Chronicles 10:9 - And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father H1 did put upon us?

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

2 Chronicles 10:11 - For whereas my father H1 put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father H1 chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

2 Chronicles 10:14 - And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father H1 made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father H1 chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

2 Chronicles 11:16 - And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers. H1

2 Chronicles 12:16 - And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 13:12 - And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; H1 for ye shall not prosper.

2 Chronicles 13:18 - Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers. H1

2 Chronicles 14:1 - So Abijah slept with his fathers, H1 and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

2 Chronicles 14:4 - And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, H1 and to do the law and the commandment.

2 Chronicles 15:12 - And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers H1 with all their heart and with all their soul;

2 Chronicles 15:18 - And he brought into the house of God the things that his father H1 had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

2 Chronicles 16:3 - There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father H1 and thy father: H1 behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

2 Chronicles 16:13 - And Asa slept with his fathers, H1 and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 17:2 - And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father H1 had taken.

2 Chronicles 17:3 - And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father H1 David, and sought not unto Baalim;

2 Chronicles 17:4 - But sought to the LORD God of his father, H1 and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 17:14 - And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: H1 Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

2 Chronicles 19:4 - And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers. H1

2 Chronicles 19:8 - Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers H1 of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 20:6 - And said, O LORD God of our fathers, H1 art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

2 Chronicles 20:32 - And he walked in the way of Asa his father, H1 and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 20:33 - Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. H1

2 Chronicles 21:1 - Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, H1 and was buried with his fathers H1 in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 21:3 - And their father H1 gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.

2 Chronicles 21:4 - Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, H1 he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:10 - So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers. H1

2 Chronicles 21:12 - And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, H1 Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, H1 nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

2 Chronicles 21:13 - But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's H1 house, which were better than thyself:

2 Chronicles 21:19 - And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. H1

2 Chronicles 22:4 - Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father H1 to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 23:2 - And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers H1 of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 24:18 - And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, H1 and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

2 Chronicles 24:22 - Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father H1 had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

2 Chronicles 24:24 - For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. H1 So they executed judgment against Joash.

2 Chronicles 25:3 - Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. H1

2 Chronicles 25:4 - But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers H1 shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, H1 but every man shall die for his own sin.

2 Chronicles 25:5 - Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, H1 throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 25:28 - And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers H1 in the city of Judah.

2 Chronicles 26:1 - Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father H1 Amaziah.

2 Chronicles 26:2 - He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. H1

2 Chronicles 26:4 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father H1 Amaziah did.

2 Chronicles 26:12 - The whole number of the chief of the fathers H1 of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.

2 Chronicles 26:23 - So Uzziah slept with his fathers, H1 and they buried him with his fathers H1 in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 27:2 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father H1 Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

2 Chronicles 27:9 - And Jotham slept with his fathers, H1 and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 28:1 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: H1

2 Chronicles 28:6 - For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. H1