אָב (av)

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.

The sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of…

Children were also born to Shem (the elder brother of Japheth), the father of all the children of Eber.

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the…

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I…

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of…

The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way…

Come, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line.”

They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when…

It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father.…

They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down,…

Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.

The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.

The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me.…

Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and…

Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,

Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who…

and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”

but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife…

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these…

Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped,…

Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had…

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with…

Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,

Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as…

You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a…

He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of…

Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of…

His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau…

He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his…

Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father,…

Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up…

Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky…

Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of…

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of…

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will…

so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this…

Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

and said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my…

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has…

and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had…

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that…

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He…

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have…

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of…

He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…

Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”

Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.

Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will…

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their…

The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all…

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now…

Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as…

This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed…

chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their…

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his…

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak…

He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you…

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…

They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it,…

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down…

Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown…

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my…

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest…

They came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of…

As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their…

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you…

Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will…

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a…

They said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still…

Judah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die,…

Their father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take from the choice fruits of the land in your…

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks.…

He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”

They said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.

He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as…

My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead,…

We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’

When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the…

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of…

For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the…

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were…

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and…

Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt.…

You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father…

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will…

Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and…

He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded…

They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry…

Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great…

Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives,…

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell…

Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My…

that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our…

Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all…

Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we,…

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in…

Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have…

Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in…

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their…

but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” Joseph said, “I…

After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and…

Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I…

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my…

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my…

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s…

Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great.…

Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

Boiling over like water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to…

“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down…

even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above,…

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient…

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed…

He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in…

Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of…

Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the…

all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds,…

They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and…

Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried…

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully…

They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to…

Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.