H1: אָב

Extended definition

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1 is translated

• his ×301
• your ×253
• their ×185
• my ×147
• our ×79
• the father of ×60
• fathers ×55
• a father ×37
• her ×35
• parents ×10
• was the father of ×8
• ancestors ×6

Bible verses with H1 (ʼâb)

ʼâb appears in 1,060 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

• Genesis 2:24

  Therefore shall a man leave his father 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 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 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 of Canaan.

• Genesis 9:22

  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, 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; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

• Genesis 10:21

  Unto Shem also, the father 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 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 of Milcah, and the father 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 house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

• Genesis 15:15

  And thou shalt go to thy fathers 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 of many nations.

• Genesis 17:5

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

• Genesis 19:31

  And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father 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 drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

• Genesis 19:33

  And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; 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: 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.

• Genesis 19:35

  And they made their father 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.

• Genesis 19:37

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

• Genesis 19:38

  And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father 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, 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 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, and said, My father: 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 of Aram,

Words derived from H1