Transliteration: ʼâb • Pronunciation: awb
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application (KJV: chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.)
a primitive word;
“Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be two in one flesh.”
“And Ada brought forth Jabel: who was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of herdsmen.”
“And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of them that play upon the harp and the organs.”
“And the sons of Noe, who came out of the ark, were Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and Cham is the father of Chanaan.”
“Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.”
“Which when Cham the father of Chanaan had seen, to wit, that his father’s nakedness was uncovered, he told it to his two brethren without.”
“But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.”
“But Sem and Japheth put a cloak upon their shoulders, and going backward, covered the nakedness of their father: and their faces were turned away, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.”
“Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born.”
“And Aran died before Thare his father, in the land of his nativity in Ur of the Chaldees.”
“And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor’s wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.”
“And Abram and Nachor married wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai: and the name of Nachor’s wife, Melcha, the daughter of Aran, father of Melcha and father of Jescha.”
“And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.”
“And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.”