Word

אַב

ʼab · H2 · Aramaic · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

father

A direct male progenitor who normally provides protection, care, instruction, and discipline, and is usually regarded with respect and associated with wisdom, security, and comfort

Examples
Daniel 5:2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.
Daniel 5:11 “There is a man in your kingdom in whom is a spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, illumination, insight, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him. And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father the king—appointed him chief of the soothsayer priests, sorcerers, Chaldeans, and diviners.
Daniel 5:13 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king began speaking and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel who is one of the exiles from Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?
forefather, ancestor

Indirect male progenitor

Examples
Ezra 4:15 so that a search may be conducted in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and detrimental to kings and provinces, and that they have revolted within it in past days; for this reason that city was laid waste.
Ezra 5:12 ‘But because our fathers provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.
Daniel 2:23 “To You, God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, For You have given me wisdom and power; Even now You have made known to me what we requested of You, For You have made known to us the king’s matter.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

9 occurrences in 3 groups

ךָyour 5
יmy 3
נוּour 1

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 2 groups

מֶלֶךְking 4
נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּרNebuchadnezzar 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

רְגַזprovoke unto wrath 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

יוֹםday 1
אֱלָהּGod, god 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

πατήρ patḗr · G3962 · father, parents: Greek πατήρ (patḗr, G3962) is the direct translation equivalent of Aramaic אַב (ʼab, H2), both denoting "father" in literal kinship and extended figurative senses.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Relatives001001003012: Ezra 4:15 has the letter to King Artaxerxes urge, “so that a search may be conducted in the record books of your fathers.”

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָב ʼâb · H1 · father, grandfather, ancestor · 1210×אוֹב ʼôwb · H178 · skin-bottle, spirit of the dead · 17×אַבʼab · H2

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2. ab [אַב D§ 40.4, אַבָּא Idib MeiChr 165] noun masculine father (Biblical Hebrew אָב);…

H2. ab
[אַב D§ 40.4, אַבָּא Idib MeiChr 165]
noun masculine father (Biblical Hebrew אָב); —
1 literally father suffix אֲבוּ֫הִי Dan 5:13 (see Behrm Marti), אֲבוךְ (K§ 53, 2 a) Dan 5:11; Dan 5:11; Dan 5:11; Dan 5:18 אֲבוּ֫הִי Dan 5:2.
2 plural fathers, ancestors , [אֲבָהָן Dl.c.], suffix אֲבָהָתי Dan 2:33 (Baer תַי-, but see K§ 53, 1), אֲבָהָתָךְ Ezr 4:15, תָ֫נָא- (Str. תַ֫נָא—) Ezr 5:12.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Relatives8 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

אַב