av H1

אָב (av) means “father” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אָב Hebrew · H1 1,213 tagged occurrences in 1,060 verses

Pronunciation guide: awb Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0001G

אָב · av · father

1) father of an individual 2) of God as father of his people 3) head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan 4) ancestor 4a) grandfather, forefathers - of person 4b) of people 5) originator or patron of a class, profession, or art 6) of producer, generator (fig.) 7) of benevolence and protection (fig.) 8) term of respect and honour 9) ruler or chief (spec.) Also means: av (אַב "father" H0002)

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TBESH · H0001H

אָב · av · (Huram)-abi

A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Ki.7.13; also called Huram-abi (KJV: "Huram my father's") at 2Ch.2.13; 4.16; Combined with chi.ram (חִירָם "Hiram" H2438H)

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TBESH · H0001I

אָב · av · father of

The father of Gibeon, also known as Abiel - a man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.9.1; son of: Zeror (H6872C); married to Maacah (H4601N); father of: Kish (H7027G), Ner (H5369G), Abdon (H5658J), Zur (H6698I), Baal (H1168B), Nadab (H5070J), Gedor (H1446I), Ahio (H0283I), Zecher (H2144) and Mikloth (H4732G); also called Jeiel (Ketiv: Jeuel; KJV: Jehiel) at 1Ch.9.35; Ner at 1Ch.8.33; 9.39;

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

KJV glosses: chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.

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How translators render H1

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
his father	101
his fathers	72
my father	67
your fathers	58
your father	44
of their fathers	38
of his father	34
father	33
their fathers	33
the father	30
of your fathers	29
our fathers	26
of your father	24
and families	21
to your fathers	19
of the families	18
their father	17
of his fathers	15
her father	14
my fathers	14
of my father	13
of our fathers	12
and your fathers	11
them	11
a father	10
fathers	10
of families	10
of their families	9
to his father	9
to their fathers	9
and his father	7
families	7
our father	7
but his father	6
her fathers	6
of my fathers	6
of the fathers	6
to our fathers	6
according to their families	5
and my fathers	5
and our fathers	5
as his father	5
of their father	5
whereas my father	5
your forefathers	5
and his fathers	4
from my fathers	4
in your fathers	4
the fathers	4
to his fathers	4
was the father	4
was the father of	4
and their fathers	3
and your father	3
are our father	3
by their families	3
family	3
for his fathers	3
for your father	3
in her fathers	3
in his fathers	3
like their fathers	3
than my fathers	3
to your father	3
and father	2
and from my fathers	2
and their father	2
are my father	2
by my fathers	2
for your fathers	2
in our fathers	2
like your fathers	2
nor their fathers	2
nor your fathers	2
now the family	2
o my father	2
of her father	2
of my grandfather	2
of our father	2
of their forefathers	2
our forefather	2
than their fathers	2
the family	2
the father of	2
their forefather	2
then his father	2
they got their father	2
to give their fathers	2
to my father	2
vvv	2
against my father	1
am a father	1
and a father	1
and although he	1
and assigned them according to their families	1
and family	1
and family leaders	1
and fathers	1
and forefathers	1
and her father	1
and if my father	1
and the family	1
and the father	1
and the fathers	1
and to the family	1
and when her father	1
arba was the father	1
arba was the forefather	1
are the family	1
are your fathers now	1
as a father	1
as does a father	1
as for his father	1
as it was against your fathers	1
as solomons father	1
as would a father	1
as your fathers did	1
before you my father	1
both father	1
but	1
but her father	1
but your fathers	1
by families were	1
by his fathers	1
by their father	1
by their forefather	1
did your fathers	1
dinahs father	1
either your fathers	1
enrolled according to	1
even for his father	1
even if his father	1
everlasting father	1
for a father	1
for his family	1
for his father	1
for my father	1
for their fathers	1
from fathers	1
from his own family	1
from our father	1
from their fathers	1
from your fathers	1
he chose my fathers	1
he is the father	1
heeds his fathers	1
her and her father	1
him	1
his	1
his family	1
his father as high priest	1
his forefather had been	1
his own fathers	1
how our fathers	1
i gave to your fathers	1
if her father	1
in my father	1
in my fathers	1
into her fathers	1
is his father	1
is his fathers	1
is my father	1
is the father	1
is their father	1
is your father	1
is your fathers	1
it to his father	1
it to my father	1
it to your father	1
it to your forefathers	1
jeiel the father	1
just as their fathers	1
let my father	1
let us get our father	1
listed according to their fathers	1
may your father	1
more than your fathers	1
moreover your father is	1
my father the news	1
nor your grandfathers	1
now his father	1
now that your father	1
of each family	1
of each tribe	1
of family	1
of her fathers	1
of his ancestors	1
of his family	1
of his fathers estate	1
of one father	1
of our forefather	1
of sauls father	1
of their family	1
of their forefather	1
of their tribes	1
of your forefather	1
of your grandfather	1
on your fathers	1
one family	1
or my fathers	1
or your father	1
or your fathers	1
our ancestors	1
our fathers expense	1
our forefathers	1
over their families	1
over your father	1
representing his family	1
so his father	1
so the family	1
still in his	1
than your father	1
than your fathers	1
that his father	1
that of your fathers	1
the families	1
the loss of a father	1
their families	1
their father did	1
their fathers did	1
then our father	1
then their father	1
to a fathers	1
to bury his father	1
to give your fathers	1
to him	1
to represent their families	1
to their father	1
to their forefathers	1
to your forefathers	1
tribe	1
unlike his father	1
was a father	1
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was your fathers	1
were the fathers	1
were the sons	1
what our fathers	1
when your father	1
when your fathers	1
where his father	1
where my fathers	1
which your fathers	1
who was the father	1
who was the father of	1
who were family	1
with his father	1
with his fathers	1
with your father	1
with your fathers	1
within his fathers	1
would he	1
your fathers did	1
your fathers up	1
your own fathers	1
zechariahs father	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
his father	90
of their fathers	88
my father	63
the father	55
with his fathers	48
of the fathers	44
thy father	39
of his father	23
of your fathers	21
father	20
fathers	19
of thy father	19
of his fathers	18
their father	18
his fathers	17
their fathers	17
of thy fathers	15
unto his father	15
unto their fathers	14
unto thy fathers	14
of my father	13
of our fathers	13
your fathers	13
our father	12
and his father	11
of their father	11
thy fathers	11
our fathers	10
unto your fathers	10
your father	9
a father	7
of my fathers	7
unto our fathers	7
according to all that his father	6
of the father	6
and the father	5
of our father	5
the fathers	5
to my father	5
to their fathers	5
and her father	4
and their father	4
for his father	4
him with his fathers	4
in her fathers	4
my fathers	4
that his father	4
to his father	4
which thy fathers	4
and all his fathers	3
and our fathers	3
and thy father	3
and thy fathers	3
for the fathers	3
her father	3
in his fathers	3
of her father	3
of your father	3
than my fathers	3
that their father	3
that thy father	3
to his fathers	3
to you and to your fathers	3
unto her father	3
unto his fathers	3
unto my fathers	3
with our fathers	3
with their fathers	3
with thy fathers	3
with your fathers	3
according to all that his fathers	2
according to their fathers	2
also our fathers	2
and the fathers	2
and your father	2
as his father	2
because his father	2
between my father	2
but his father	2
but thou and thy fathers	2
for my father	2
from my fathers	2
he was the father	2
her fathers	2
i will be his father	2
if her father	2
in the room of his father	2
in thy fathers	2
let my father	2
me also o my father	2
not his father	2
of a chief	2
of her fathers	2
of the families	2
them which my fathers	2
then his father	2
to thy fathers	2
to your fathers	2
we and our fathers	2
which his fathers	2
which neither thou nor thy fathers	2
which our fathers	2
which their fathers	2
which your fathers	2
whom neither they nor their fathers	2
with my father	2
with our father	2
a prince	1
above all that their fathers	1
after thy fathers	1
against me they and their fathers	1
against my fathers	1
against thee both i and my fathers	1
against us because our fathers	1
against your fathers	1
all his fathers	1
all our fathers	1
also the father	1
also to their father	1
and all my fathers	1
and all thy fathers	1
and be not ye like your fathers	1
and fatherless	1
and for his father	1
and from thy fathers	1
and he shall be a father	1
and her fathers	1
and his fathers	1
and i will be his father	1
and if his father	1
and it shall be when their fathers	1
and lo thy father	1
and might not be as their fathers	1
and my fathers	1
and now whereas my father	1
and of his fathers	1
and of my fathers	1
and on all his fathers	1
and on our fathers	1
and our father	1
and that which thy fathers	1
and their fathers	1
and to his father	1
and to our fathers	1
and unto his fathers	1
and upon thy fathers	1
and when the father	1
and when thy father	1
and your fathers	1
as all my fathers	1
as his fathers	1
as my father	1
as their fathers	1
as thy father	1
as your fathers	1
at thy fathers	1
be on me and on my fathers	1
be with thee as he hath been with my father	1
be with us as he was with our fathers	1
be ye not as your fathers	1
behold my father	1
behold thy father	1
between the father	1
but her father	1
but if her father	1
but not like his father	1
but they and our fathers	1
by father	1
by his father	1
by my father	1
by their father	1
did not thy father	1
doth my father	1
even as a father	1
even the fathers	1
for a father	1
for i am a father	1
for i was my fathers	1
for lo our fathers	1
for our fathers	1
for she had neither father	1
for their father	1
for thy father	1
for us in our fathers	1
for your fathers	1
from him unto her fathers	1
from our father	1
from thee but your fathers	1
from their fathers	1
from thy father	1
have your fathers	1
he and his fathers	1
her and her father	1
her because her father	1
him but his father	1
him concerning his father	1
him into her fathers	1
him to his father	1
himself for his father	1
how our fathers	1
i pray thee be against me and against my fathers	1
if thy father	1
in all wherein my father	1
in my fathers	1
in our fathers	1
in your fathers	1
instead of his father	1
instead of thy fathers	1
it me and why should my father	1
it to your fathers	1
it unto your fathers	1
lest my father	1
like as a father	1
like their fathers	1
me a father	1
me before thy father	1
me my father	1
me out of my fathers	1
me to thy father	1
me with my fathers	1
more than their fathers	1
moreover my father	1
my desire	1
neither shall the father	1
no more the fathers	1
nor his fathers	1
nor of thy fathers	1
nor our fathers	1
nor thy fathers	1
not he thy father	1
not neither did thy fathers	1
not on thee and on all thy fathers	1
not so my father	1
not their fathers	1
not unto your fathers	1
not when his father	1
not your fathers	1
o my father	1
of a father	1
of fathers	1
of his patrimony	1
of their forefathers	1
on his fathers	1
on me and on my fathers	1
out of my fathers	1
over thy fathers	1
principal	1
so his father	1
such as his father	1
surely our fathers	1
than their fathers	1
than thy father	1
than your fathers	1
that his fathers	1
that my fathers	1
that your fathers	1
the things that his father	1
the which their fathers	1
thee above thy fathers	1
thee and thy fathers	1
thee to thy fathers	1
thee unto thy fathers	1
them and concerning their fathers	1
them my father	1
themselves but for father	1
then shall his father	1
then shall the father	1
therefore the fathers	1
therein as their fathers	1
thereto my father	1
they and their father	1
they ye nor your fathers	1
thou and all thy fathers	1
thou nor thy fathers	1
throughout their fathers	1
thus his father	1
to her father	1
to my fathers	1
to their father	1
to them and to their fathers	1
to thy father	1
unto her fathers	1
unto him my father	1
unto me my father	1
unto the father	1
unto thee and to thy fathers	1
unto them and to their fathers	1
unto them because your fathers	1
unto thy father	1
unto you and to your fathers	1
unto your father	1
upon his fathers	1
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us and our fathers	1
when her father	1
when my father	1
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wherein his father	1
wherein your fathers	1
which his father	1
which my father	1
which neither thy fathers	1
which thy father	1
whom his fathers	1
whom my fathers	1
whom your fathers	1
whose fathers	1
with her father	1
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with me and be unto me a father	1
with my fathers	1
with thee and thou shalt be a father	1
ye a father	1
ye and your fathers	1
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ye not what i and my fathers	1
yet his father	1
yet in this your fathers	1
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Verses containing H1

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Genesis 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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Genesis 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
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Genesis 4:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
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Genesis 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
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Genesis 9:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
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Genesis 9:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
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Genesis 10:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the sons of Eber.
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Genesis 11:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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Genesis 11:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
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Genesis 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
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Genesis 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
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Genesis 17:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
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Genesis 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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Genesis 19:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
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Genesis 19:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
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Genesis 19:33 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
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Genesis 19:34 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
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Genesis 19:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
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Genesis 19:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
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Genesis 19:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
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Genesis 19:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.
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Genesis 20:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
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Genesis 20:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
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Genesis 22:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
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Genesis 22:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
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Genesis 24:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
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Genesis 24:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
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Genesis 24:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
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Genesis 24:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
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Genesis 26:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
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Genesis 26:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
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Genesis 26:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
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Genesis 26:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
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Genesis 27:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
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Genesis 27:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
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Genesis 27:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
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Genesis 27:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
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Genesis 27:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
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Genesis 27:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
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Genesis 27:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
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Genesis 27:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
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Genesis 27:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
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Genesis 27:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
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Genesis 27:31 · BSB · 3 occurrences
He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
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Genesis 27:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
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Genesis 27:34 · BSB · 3 occurrences
When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
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Genesis 27:38 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
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Genesis 27:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
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Genesis 27:41 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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Genesis 28:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
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