Strong's Number 1
Transliteration:
'ab
{awb}
Word Origin:
a root
TWOT:
4a
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
father 1205, chief 2, families 2, desire 1, fatherless 0369 1, forefathers 07223 1, patrimony 1, prince 1, principal 1
Total: 1215
Definition:
- father of an individual
- of God as father of his people
- head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan
- ancestor
- grandfather, forefathers -- of person
- of people
- originator or patron of a class, profession, or art
- of producer, generator (fig.)
- of benevolence and protection (fig.)
- term of respect and honour
- ruler or chief (spec.)