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
was the forefather	1
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
upon us because our fathers	1
us and our fathers	1
when her father	1
when my father	1
when your fathers	1
where our fathers	1
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
with her fathers	1
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
ye nor your fathers	1
ye not what i and my fathers	1
yet his father	1
yet in this your fathers	1
you and your fathers	1
you when your fathers	1

Verses containing H1

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Psalms 106:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
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Psalms 106:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
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Psalms 109:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
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Proverbs 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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Proverbs 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
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Proverbs 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
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Proverbs 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
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Proverbs 6:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
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Proverbs 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
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Proverbs 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
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Proverbs 15:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
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Proverbs 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
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Proverbs 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
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Proverbs 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
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Proverbs 17:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
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Proverbs 19:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
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Proverbs 19:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
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Proverbs 19:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
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Proverbs 20:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
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Proverbs 22:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
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Proverbs 23:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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Proverbs 23:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
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Proverbs 23:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
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Proverbs 27:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
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Proverbs 28:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
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Proverbs 28:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
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Proverbs 29:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
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Proverbs 30:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
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Proverbs 30:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
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Isaiah 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”
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Isaiah 7:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
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Isaiah 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
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Isaiah 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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Source alternate reference: 9.5
Isaiah 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
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Isaiah 22:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
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Isaiah 22:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
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Isaiah 22:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
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Isaiah 37:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
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Isaiah 38:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
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Isaiah 38:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
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Isaiah 39:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
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Isaiah 43:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.
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Isaiah 45:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
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Isaiah 51:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
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Isaiah 58:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
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Isaiah 63:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
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Isaiah 64:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
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Source alternate reference: 64.7
Isaiah 64:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
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Source alternate reference: 64.10
Isaiah 65:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”
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Jeremiah 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
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