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

Deuteronomy 33:9 - Who said unto his father H1 and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Joshua 1:6 - Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers H1 to give them.

Joshua 2:12 - Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's H1 house, and give me a true token:

Joshua 2:13 - And that ye will save alive my father, H1 and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

Joshua 2:18 - Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, H1 and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's H1 household, home unto thee.

Joshua 4:21 - And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers H1 in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

Joshua 5:6 - For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers H1 that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Joshua 6:23 - And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, H1 and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.

Joshua 6:25 - And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's H1 household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Joshua 14:1 - And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers H1 of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.

Joshua 15:13 - And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father H1 of Anak, which city is Hebron.

Joshua 15:18 - And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father H1 a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

Joshua 17:1 - There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father H1 of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Joshua 17:4 - And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. H1

Joshua 18:3 - And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers H1 hath given you?

Joshua 19:47 - And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. H1

Joshua 19:51 - These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers H1 of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.

Joshua 21:1 - Then came near the heads of the fathers H1 of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers H1 of the tribes of the children of Israel;

Joshua 21:11 - And they gave them the city of Arba the father H1 of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.

Joshua 21:43 - And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; H1 and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

Joshua 21:44 - And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: H1 and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

Joshua 22:14 - And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince H1 throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers H1 among the thousands of Israel.

Joshua 22:28 - Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers H1 made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.

Joshua 24:2 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers H1 dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father H1 of Abraham, and the father H1 of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Joshua 24:3 - And I took your father H1 Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

Joshua 24:6 - And I brought your fathers H1 out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers H1 with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

Joshua 24:14 - Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers H1 served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

Joshua 24:15 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers H1 served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:17 - For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers H1 out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:

Joshua 24:32 - And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father H1 of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Judges 1:14 - And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father H1 a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

Judges 2:1 - And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; H1 and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

Judges 2:10 - And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: H1 and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Judges 2:12 - And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, H1 which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

Judges 2:17 - And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers H1 walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.

Judges 2:19 - And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, H1 in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

Judges 2:20 - And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, H1 and have not hearkened unto my voice;

Judges 2:22 - That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers H1 did keep it, or not.

Judges 3:4 - And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers H1 by the hand of Moses.

Judges 6:13 - And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers H1 told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

Judges 6:15 - And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's H1 house.

Judges 6:25 - And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's H1 young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father H1 hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

Judges 6:27 - Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's H1 household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

Judges 8:32 - And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, H1 in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 9:1 - And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, H1 saying,

Judges 9:5 - And he went unto his father's H1 house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

Judges 9:17 - (For my father H1 fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

Judges 9:18 - And ye are risen up against my father's H1 house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)

Judges 9:28 - And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father H1 of Shechem: for why should we serve him?

Judges 9:56 - Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, H1 in slaying his seventy brethren: