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
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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Jeremiah 35:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!
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Jeremiah 35:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
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Jeremiah 35:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.
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Jeremiah 35:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
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Jeremiah 44:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
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Jeremiah 44:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and of the kings of Judah and their wives, as well as the wickedness that you and your wives committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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Jeremiah 44:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
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Jeremiah 44:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
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Jeremiah 44:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?
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Jeremiah 47:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.
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Jeremiah 50:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
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Lamentations 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
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Lamentations 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
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Ezekiel 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
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Ezekiel 5:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
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Ezekiel 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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Ezekiel 16:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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Ezekiel 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
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Ezekiel 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
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Ezekiel 18:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
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Ezekiel 18:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
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Ezekiel 18:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
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Ezekiel 18:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
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Ezekiel 18:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
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Ezekiel 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Confront them with the abominations of their fathers
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Ezekiel 20:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
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Ezekiel 20:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
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Ezekiel 20:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by their unfaithfulness against Me.
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Ezekiel 20:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
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Ezekiel 20:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.
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Ezekiel 20:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers.
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Ezekiel 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
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Ezekiel 22:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.
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Ezekiel 22:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
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Ezekiel 36:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
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Ezekiel 37:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
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Ezekiel 44:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
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Ezekiel 47:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with an uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will fall to you as an inheritance.
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Daniel 9:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.
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Daniel 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.
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Daniel 9:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
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Daniel 11:24 · BSB · 3 occurrences
In a time of peace, he will invade the richest provinces and do what his fathers and forefathers never did. He will lavish plunder, loot, and wealth on his followers, and he will plot against the strongholds—but only for a time.
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Daniel 11:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers, nor for the one desired by women, nor for any other god, because he will magnify himself above them all.
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Daniel 11:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his fathers did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.
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Hosea 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
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Joel 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear this, O elders; and give ear, all who dwell in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your fathers?
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Amos 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked.
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Amos 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
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Micah 7:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
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Micah 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
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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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