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Father

This word, beside its common acceptation, is taken in Scripture for grandfather, great-grandfather, or the founder of a family, how remote soever. So the Jews in our Saviour’s time called Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their fathers. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
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Key facts

Subject type
Person
Strong’s
H0001, H0002, G3962
Hebrew
אָב
Greek
πατήρ · patēr

Strong’s and original-language information

H0001

אָב

Glosses: father

Indexed occurrences: 1,057

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

H0002

אַב

Glosses: father

Indexed occurrences: 7

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G3962

πατήρ · patēr

Glosses: father

πατήρ, πατρός, -τρί, τέρα, [in LXX chiefly and very frequently for אָב ; ] a father; __1.

Indexed occurrences: 0

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

H0001

אָב · ʼâb

Glosses: chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0006

אָבַד · ʼâbad

Glosses: break, destroy(-uction), [phrase] not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, [idiom] and surely, take, be undone, [idiom] utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.

properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself

by implication to perish (causative, destroy)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0014

אָבָה · ʼâbâh

Glosses: consent, rest content will, be willing.

to breathe after, i.e. (figuratively) to be acquiescent

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0015

אָבֶה · ʼâbeh

Glosses: desire.

longing

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0024

אָבִיב · ʼâbîyb

Glosses: Abib, ear, green ears of corn (not maize).

green, i.e. a young ear of grain

hence, the name of the month Abib or Nisan

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0046

אָבִיר · ʼâbîyr

Glosses: mighty (one).

mighty (spoken of God)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0055

אָבַךְ · ʼâbak

Glosses: mount up.

probably to coil upward

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0056

אָבַל · ʼâbal

Glosses: lament, mourn.

to bewail

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0057

אָבֵל · ʼâbêl

Glosses: mourn(-er, -ing).

lamenting

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0058

אָבֵל · ʼâbêl

Glosses: plain. Compare also the proper names beginning with Abel-.

a meadow

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0059

אָבֵל · ʼÂbêl

Glosses: Abel.

Abel, the name of two places in Palestine.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0062

אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה · ʼÂbêl Bêyth-Măʻakâh

Glosses: Abel-beth-maachah, Abel of Beth-maachah,

Abel of Beth-maakah, a place in Palestine

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0063

אָבֵל הַשִּׁטִּים · ʼÂbêl hash-Shiṭṭîym

Glosses: Abelshittim.

Abel hash-Shittim, a place in Palestine

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0064

אָבֵל כְּרָמִים · ʼÂbêl Kᵉrâmîym

Glosses: plain of the vineyards.

Abel-Keramim, a place in Palestine

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0065

אָבֵל מְחוֹלָה · ʼÂbêl Mᵉchôwlâh

Glosses: Abel-meholah.

Abel-Mecholah, a place in Palestine

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0067

אָבֵל מִצְרַיִם · ʼÂbêl Mitsrayim

Glosses: Abel-mizraim.

Abel-Mitsrajim, a place in Palestine

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0075

אָבַס · ʼâbaç

Glosses: fatted, stalled.

to fodder

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0079

אָבַק · ʼâbaq

Glosses: wrestle.

to bedust, i.e. grapple

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0080

אָבָק · ʼâbâq

Glosses: (small) dust, powder.

light particles (as volatile)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H0082

אָבַר · ʼâbar

Glosses: fly.

to soar

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Father

A name applied (1) to any ancestor (Deut. 1:11; 1 Kings 15:11; Matt. 3:9; 23:30, etc.); and (2) as a title of respect to a chief, ruler, or elder, etc. (Judg. 17:10; 18:19; 1 Sam. 10:12; 2 Kings 2:12; Matt. 23:9, etc.). (3) The author or beginner of anything is also so called; e.g., Jabal and Jubal (Gen. 4:20, 21; comp. Job 38:28). Applied to God (Ex. 4:22; Deut. 32:6; 2 Sam. 7:14; Ps. 89:27, 28, etc.). (1.) As denoting his covenant relation to the Jews (Jer. 31:9; Isa. 63:16; 64:8; John 8:41, etc.). (2.) Believers are called God's "sons" (John 1:12; Rom. 8:16; Matt. 6:4, 8, 15, 18; 10:20, 29). They also call him "Father" (Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:3; 2 Cor. 1:2; Gal. 1:4)

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

FATHER

This word, beside its common acceptation, is taken in Scripture for grandfather, great-grandfather, or the founder of a family, how remote soever. So the Jews in our Saviour’s time called Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their fathers. Jesus Christ is called the Son of David, though David was many generations distant from him.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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