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
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
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what our fathers	1
when your father	1
when your fathers	1
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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
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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
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unto you and to your fathers	1
unto your father	1
upon his fathers	1
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when her father	1
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wherein your fathers	1
which his father	1
which my father	1
which neither thy fathers	1
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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
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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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you when your fathers	1

Verses containing H1

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2 Chronicles 26:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The total number of family leaders of the mighty men of valor was 2,600.
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2 Chronicles 26:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field of burial that belonged to the kings, for the people said, “He was a leper.” And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 27:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still behaved corruptly.
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2 Chronicles 27:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Ahaz reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 28:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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2 Chronicles 28:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
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2 Chronicles 28:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.
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2 Chronicles 28:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 29:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
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2 Chronicles 29:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
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2 Chronicles 29:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
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2 Chronicles 29:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For behold, this is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives are in captivity.
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2 Chronicles 30:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.
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2 Chronicles 30:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
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2 Chronicles 30:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
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2 Chronicles 30:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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2 Chronicles 31:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their responsibilities and divisions.
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2 Chronicles 32:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?
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2 Chronicles 32:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
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2 Chronicles 32:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
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2 Chronicles 32:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 33:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
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2 Chronicles 33:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”
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2 Chronicles 33:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
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2 Chronicles 33:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 33:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
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2 Chronicles 33:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
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2 Chronicles 34:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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2 Chronicles 34:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
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2 Chronicles 34:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
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2 Chronicles 34:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its people.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
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2 Chronicles 34:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
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2 Chronicles 34:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
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2 Chronicles 35:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the instructions written by David king of Israel and Solomon his son.
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2 Chronicles 35:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Moreover, stand in the Holy Place by the divisions of the families of your kinsmen the lay people, and by the divisions of the families of the Levites.
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2 Chronicles 35:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And they did the same with the bulls.
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2 Chronicles 35:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
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2 Chronicles 36:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.
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2 Chronicles 36:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
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Ezra 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
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Ezra 2:59 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:
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Ezra 2:68 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.
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Ezra 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.
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Ezra 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
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Ezra 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”
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Ezra 7:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
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Ezra 8:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the family heads and genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:
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Ezra 8:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I told them, “You are holy to the LORD, and these articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.
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Ezra 8:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the LORD in Jerusalem before the leading priests, Levites, and heads of the Israelite families.”
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We convert source tables to JSON, expand grammar labels and count tagged words. Greek counts use the SBL edition in TAGNT. Hebrew counts use the main reading in TAHOT, including Qere readings and restored text. Source numbering follows NRSV; alternate references appear where supplied.

Berean Standard Bible translation tables, public domain, Berean Bible. CrossWire KJV 3.1 , public domain text with Bible Foundation and KJV2003 Project tags, licensed for any purpose. Dodson Greek Lexicon , CC0. Strong’s Hebrew dictionary , Open Scriptures transcription, CC BY-SA; converted Hebrew entries retain those terms. Greek pronunciation spellings come from Strong's Greek dictionary, XML edition 1.4 , public domain.

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