Father
אַבStrong’s H0002av
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Av is the Aramaic word usually translated “father your”, “fathers your” and “fathers our”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.”
Meaning
- Father
How it's translated
- father your 4
- fathers your 1
- fathers our 1
- fathers my 1
- father his 1
- father my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
- Ezra 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:2In contextBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 5:11In contextThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
- Daniel 5:13In contextThen was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
- Daniel 5:18In contextO thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
- Ezra 4:15That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
- Ezra 5:12But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Aramaic dictionary
אַב av · father
father Aramaic of av (אָב "father" H0001)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “father” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
F'ATHER, noun
[Latin pater. The primary sense is obvious.]
- He who begets a child; in Latin genitor or generator.“The father of a fool hath no joy” Proverbs 17:21
- The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family.
- The appellation of an old man, and a term of respect.“The king of Israel said to Elisha, my father shall I smite them?” 2 Kings 6:21
- The grandfather or more remote ancestor. Daniel 5:2
All definitions
- One who feeds and supports or exercises paternal care over another.
- He who creates, invents, makes or composes any thing; the author, former or contriver; a founder, director or instructor. John 8:16Genesis 4:201 Chronicles 2:511 Chronicles 4:14John 8:16Romans 4:1
- Fathers, in the plural, ancestors.“David slept with his fathers” 1 Kings 2:10
- A father in law. Luke 3:8
- The appellation of the first person in the adorable Trinity.“Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” Matthew 28:19
- The title given to dignitaries of the church, superiors of convents, and to popish confessors.
- The appellation of the ecclesiastical writers of the first centuries, as Polycarp, Jerome, etc.
- The title of a senator in ancient Rome; as conscript fathers.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.