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Hebrew study
Strong's Concordance H1
אָב
av
These definitions help orient word study; the surrounding passage still determines how the word functions in context.
Word study
Meaning and definition
- Brief meaning
- father; (Huram)-abi; father of
- Occurrences
- 1,201
Meanings listed for this word
father
אָב(Huram)-abi
אָבfather of
אָב
Occurrences in Scripture
Where this appears
Links open the Bible passage where this word appears. They do not decide the meaning in that verse.
- Occurrences in this source edition
- 1,201
- Strong number
- H1
Hebrew forms
אֲ֠בִי/הֶםאֲ֠בוֹתֶי/ךָאֲ֭בֹתֶי/ךָאֲ֭בֹתָי/ואֲ֭בוֹתָ/םאֲב֘וֹתֵ֤י/נוּאֲב֣וֹתאֲב֣וֹתֵי/הֶ֔םאֲב֣וֹתֵי/כֶ֔םאֲב֥וֹתאֲבִ֕יאֲבִ֖י
- אֲבוֹתֵ֖י/נוּ1Chr.12.18Read 1 Chronicles 12:18
Lexical source notes
Source form label: Hebrew or Aramaic form in this TBESH source
A lemma tag and historical Strong gloss are not the contextual meaning of a word in a verse.
TBESH sense rows are source classifications; they do not determine which sense applies in a biblical passage.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible; Westminster Leningrad Codex text and OSHB lemma/id/morphology data.
STEP Bible, Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Hebrew (TBESH), Git commit 079db44a434e7f2bf5e33f95058e43d7437be92b; data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge.
Historical Strong’s entry (1890)
This historical wording is preserved for source transparency. It is not promoted into a modern root, pronunciation, or contextual definition.
- Strong’s number
- H1
Source and edition
James Strong, Strong’s Hebrew Bible Dictionary (1890); Bible Foundation text source; CrossWire module 1.2
View the 1890 print witness