Strong H13 sensesאָב

The 3 senses of Strong H1

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H1 appears in 1,061 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. fatherH1Gfather of an individual1,052 verses · 31 books
2. father ofH1IFather of Kish and grandfather of King Saul2 verses · 1 Chronicles
3. (Huram)-abiH1HA man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.7.13; also called Huram-abi (KJV: "Huram my father's") at 2Ch.2.13; 4.161 verse · 2 Chronicles

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• father1,053
• chief2
• family2
• let2
• desire1
• fatherless1
• forefather1
• patrimony1
• pray1
• prince1
• principal1
• thereto1

First verses

1. 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.
2. Genesis 4:20
   And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
3. Genesis 4:21
   And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
4. 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.
5. Genesis 9:22
   And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Genesis 11:28
   And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
9. 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.
10. 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:
11. Genesis 15:15
    And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
12. Genesis 17:4
    As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
13. 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.
14. 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:
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. Genesis 19:36
    Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
20. 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.