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Abba

A Syriac word, which signifies _father_. The learned Mr. Abba is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “father.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

View overview sources
  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Person
Strong’s
G0005
Greek
ἀββά · abba
Name meaning
father According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

G0005

ἀββά · abba

Glosses: Abba

Ἀββά (T, -ᾶ), indecl. (Aram, אַבָּא, emphatic form of אַב = Heb. אָב, father), used in the phrase Ἀ.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Abba

father

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

ABBA

a Syriac word, which signifies _father_. The learned Mr. Selden, from the Babylonian Gemara, has proved that slaves were not allowed to use the title abba in addressing the master of the family to which they belonged.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Abba

Meaning:
father

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Sources

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