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

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

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
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her fathers	6
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of the fathers	6
to our fathers	6
according to their families	5
and my fathers	5
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as his father	5
of their father	5
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your forefathers	5
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in your fathers	4
the fathers	4
to his fathers	4
was the father	4
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family	3
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to your father	3
and father	2
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o my father	2
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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
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and assigned them according to their families	1
and family	1
and family leaders	1
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before you my father	1
both father	1
but	1
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dinahs father	1
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he chose my fathers	1
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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
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it to his father	1
it to my father	1
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it to your forefathers	1
jeiel the father	1
just as their fathers	1
let my father	1
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listed according to their fathers	1
may your father	1
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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
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of your grandfather	1
on your fathers	1
one family	1
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our ancestors	1
our fathers expense	1
our forefathers	1
over their families	1
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that of your fathers	1
the families	1
the loss of a father	1
their families	1
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their fathers did	1
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to bury his father	1
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tribe	1
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would he	1
your fathers did	1
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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
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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
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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
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and on all his fathers	1
and on our fathers	1
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and that which thy fathers	1
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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
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but not like his father	1
but they and our fathers	1
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by my father	1
by their father	1
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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
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from thee but your fathers	1
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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
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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
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lest my father	1
like as a father	1
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me a father	1
me before thy father	1
me my father	1
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my desire	1
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nor our fathers	1
nor thy fathers	1
not he thy father	1
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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
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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
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Verses containing H1

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1 Samuel 14:51 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.
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1 Samuel 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
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1 Samuel 17:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
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1 Samuel 17:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
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1 Samuel 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.
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1 Samuel 18:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
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1 Samuel 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
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1 Samuel 19:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”
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1 Samuel 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
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1 Samuel 20:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
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1 Samuel 20:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
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1 Samuel 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
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1 Samuel 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
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1 Samuel 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
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1 Samuel 20:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
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1 Samuel 20:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
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1 Samuel 20:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
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1 Samuel 20:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
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1 Samuel 20:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
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1 Samuel 20:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
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1 Samuel 20:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
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1 Samuel 22:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
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1 Samuel 22:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
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1 Samuel 22:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.
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1 Samuel 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
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1 Samuel 22:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the king replied, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!”
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1 Samuel 22:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.
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1 Samuel 23:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”
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1 Samuel 24:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, my father, look at the corner of your robe in my hand. For I cut it off, but I did not kill you. Know and see that there is no evil or rebellion in my hands. I have not sinned against you, even though you are hunting me down to take my life.
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Source alternate reference: 24.12
1 Samuel 24:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”
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Source alternate reference: 24.22
2 Samuel 2:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.
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2 Samuel 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. So Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”
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2 Samuel 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!
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2 Samuel 3:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May it whirl over the head of Joab and over the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
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2 Samuel 6:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,
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2 Samuel 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
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2 Samuel 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
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2 Samuel 9:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Do not be afraid,” said David, “for surely I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
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2 Samuel 10:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
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2 Samuel 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
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2 Samuel 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
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2 Samuel 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
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2 Samuel 15:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’
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2 Samuel 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
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2 Samuel 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, whom should I serve if not his son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”
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2 Samuel 16:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
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2 Samuel 16:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
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2 Samuel 17:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.
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2 Samuel 17:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
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2 Samuel 17:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
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