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
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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
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what our fathers	1
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where my fathers	1
which your fathers	1
who was the father	1
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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
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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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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
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Verses containing H1

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Numbers 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
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Numbers 13:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
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Numbers 14:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
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Numbers 14:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
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Numbers 17:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Speak to the Israelites and take from them twelve staffs, one from the leader of each tribe. Write each man’s name on his staff,
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Source alternate reference: 17.17
Numbers 17:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.
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Source alternate reference: 17.18
Numbers 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff—one for each of the leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. And Aaron’s staff was among them.
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Source alternate reference: 17.21
Numbers 18:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary. And you and your sons alone must bear the iniquity involving your priesthood.
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Numbers 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But bring with you also your brothers from the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and assist you and your sons before the Tent of the Testimony.
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Numbers 20:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,
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Numbers 25:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
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Numbers 25:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a Midianite family.
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Numbers 26:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
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Numbers 26:55 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
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Numbers 27:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Our father died in the wilderness, but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he had no sons.
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Numbers 27:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”
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Numbers 27:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.
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Numbers 27:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
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Numbers 27:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
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Numbers 30:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,
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Source alternate reference: 30.4
Numbers 30:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
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Source alternate reference: 30.5
Numbers 30:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
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Source alternate reference: 30.6
Numbers 30:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.
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Source alternate reference: 30.17
Numbers 31:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.
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Numbers 32:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
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Numbers 32:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
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Numbers 32:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the family leaders of the tribes of Israel.
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Numbers 33:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.
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Numbers 34:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For the tribes of the Reubenites and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already received their inheritance.
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Numbers 36:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the family heads of the clan of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph, approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families and addressed them,
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Numbers 36:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
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Numbers 36:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
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Numbers 36:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
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Numbers 36:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
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Numbers 36:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
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Numbers 36:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.
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Deuteronomy 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
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Deuteronomy 1:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
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Deuteronomy 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
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Deuteronomy 1:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
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Deuteronomy 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 4:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
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Deuteronomy 4:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
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Deuteronomy 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
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Deuteronomy 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
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Deuteronomy 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
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Deuteronomy 6:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
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Deuteronomy 6:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
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Deuteronomy 6:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
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Deuteronomy 6:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.
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