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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H1 — אָב
av · father · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 2:24 · אָבִ֖יוTherefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.Genesis 4:20 · אֲבִ֕יAdah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.Genesis 4:21 · אֲבִ֕יHis brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.Genesis 9:18 · אֲבִ֥יThe sons of Noah who went out from the ship were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.Genesis 9:22 · אֲבִ֣י · אָבִ֑יוHam, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.Genesis 9:23 · אֲבִיהֶ֑ם · אֲבִיהֶ֖םShem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.Genesis 10:21 · אֲבִי֙To Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.Genesis 11:28 · אָבִ֑יוHaran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.Genesis 11:29 · אֲבִֽי־ · וַֽאֲבִ֥יAbram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.Genesis 12:1 · אָבִ֑יךָNow Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.Genesis 15:15 · אֲבֹתֶ֖יךָbut you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.Genesis 17:4 · לְאַ֖ב“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.Genesis 17:5 · אַב־Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.Genesis 19:31 · אָבִ֣ינוּThe firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.Genesis 19:32 · אָבִ֛ינוּ · מֵאָבִ֖ינוּCome, let’s make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”Genesis 19:33 · אֲבִיהֶ֛ן · אָבִ֔יהָThey made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.Genesis 19:34 · אָבִ֑י · מֵאָבִ֖ינוּIt came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s seed.”Genesis 19:35 · אֲבִיהֶ֖ןThey made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.Genesis 19:36 · מֵאֲבִיהֶֽן׃Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.Genesis 19:37 · אֲבִֽי־The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.Genesis 19:38 · אֲבִ֥יThe younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.Genesis 20:12 · אָבִי֙Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.Genesis 20:13 · אָבִי֒It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”Genesis 22:7 · אָבִיו֙ · אָבִ֔יIsaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”Genesis 22:21 · אֲבִ֥יUz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,Genesis 24:7 · אָבִי֮Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your seed.’ He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.Genesis 24:23 · אָבִ֛יךְand said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?”Genesis 24:38 · אָבִ֛יbut you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’Genesis 24:40 · אָבִֽי׃He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father’s house.Genesis 26:3 · אָבִֽיךָ׃Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.Genesis 26:15 · אָבִ֔יו · אָבִ֑יוNow all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.Genesis 26:18 · אָבִ֔יו · אָבִֽיו׃Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.Genesis 26:24 · אָבִ֑יךָYahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.”Genesis 27:6 · אָבִ֔יךָRebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,Genesis 27:9 · לְאָבִ֖יךָGo now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.Genesis 27:10 · לְאָבִ֖יךָYou shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.”Genesis 27:12 · אָבִ֔יWhat if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”Genesis 27:14 · אָבִֽיו׃He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.Genesis 27:18 · אָבִ֖יו · אָבִ֑יHe came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”Genesis 27:19 · אָבִ֗יוJacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”Genesis 27:22 · אָבִ֖יוJacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”Genesis 27:26 · אָבִ֑יוHis father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”Genesis 27:30 · אָבִ֑יוIt happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.Genesis 27:31 · לְאָבִ֑יו · לְאָבִ֗יו · אָבִי֙He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”Genesis 27:32 · אָבִ֖יוIsaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”Genesis 27:34 · אָבִ֔יו · לְאָבִ֔יו · אָבִֽי׃When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”Genesis 27:38 · אָבִ֗יו · אָבִ֔י · אָבִ֑יEsau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.Genesis 27:39 · אָבִ֖יוIsaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.Genesis 27:41 · אָבִ֑יו · אָבִ֔יEsau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”Genesis 28:2 · אֲבִ֣יArise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.Genesis 28:7 · אָבִ֖יוand that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.Genesis 28:8 · אָבִֽיו׃Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.Genesis 28:13 · אָבִ֔יךָBehold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.Genesis 28:21 · אָבִ֑יso that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,Genesis 29:9 · לְאָבִ֔יהָWhile he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.Genesis 29:12 · אָבִ֙יהָ֙ · לְאָבִֽיהָ׃Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.Genesis 31:1 · לְאָבִ֑ינוּ · לְאָבִ֔ינוּHe heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.”Genesis 31:3 · אֲבוֹתֶ֖יךָYahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”Genesis 31:5 · אֲבִיכֶ֔ן · אָבִ֔יand said to them, “I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.Genesis 31:6 · אֲבִיכֶֽן׃You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.Genesis 31:7 · וַאֲבִיכֶן֙Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.Genesis 31:9 · אֲבִיכֶ֖םThus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.Genesis 31:14 · אָבִֽינוּ׃Rachel and Leah answered him, “Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?Genesis 31:16 · מֵֽאָבִ֔ינוּFor all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”Genesis 31:18 · אָבִ֖יוand he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.Genesis 31:19 · לְאָבִֽיהָ׃Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.Genesis 31:29 · אֲבִיכֶ֜םIt is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Take heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’Genesis 31:30 · אָבִ֑יךָNow, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”Genesis 31:35 · אָבִ֗יהָShe said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.Genesis 31:42 · אָבִי֩Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”Genesis 31:53 · אֲבִיהֶ֑ם · אָבִ֥יוThe God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.Genesis 32:9 · אָבִ֣י · אָבִ֣יJacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’Genesis 33:19 · אֲבִ֣יHe bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.Genesis 34:4 · אָבִ֖יוShechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”Genesis 34:6 · אֲבִֽי־Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.Genesis 34:11 · אָבִ֣יהShechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.Genesis 34:13 · אָבִ֛יוThe sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,Genesis 34:19 · אָבִֽיו׃The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.Genesis 35:18 · וְאָבִ֖יוIt happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.Genesis 35:22 · אָבִ֑֔יוIt happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.Genesis 35:27 · אָבִ֔יוJacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.Genesis 36:9 · אֲבִ֣יThis is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:Genesis 36:24 · אָבִֽיו׃These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.Genesis 36:43 · אֲבִ֥יchief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.Genesis 37:1 · אָבִ֑יוJacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.Genesis 37:2 · אָבִ֑יו · אֲבִיהֶֽם׃This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.Genesis 37:4 · אֲבִיהֶם֙His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.Genesis 37:10 · אָבִיו֮ · אָבִ֔יוHe told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”Genesis 37:11 · וְאָבִ֖יוHis brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.Genesis 37:12 · אֲבִיהֶ֖םHis brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.Genesis 37:22 · אָבִֽיו׃Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.Genesis 37:32 · אֲבִיהֶ֔םThey took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.”Genesis 37:35 · אָבִֽיו׃All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.Genesis 38:11 · אָבִ֗יךְ · אָבִֽיהָ׃Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.Genesis 41:51 · אָבִֽי׃Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”Genesis 42:13 · אָבִ֙ינוּ֙They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”Genesis 42:29 · אֲבִיהֶ֖םThey came to Jacob their father, to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,Genesis 42:32 · אָבִ֑ינוּ · אָבִ֖ינוּWe are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’Genesis 42:35 · וַאֲבִיהֶ֖םIt happened as they emptied their sacks, that behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.Genesis 42:36 · אֲבִיהֶ֔םJacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”Genesis 42:37 · אָבִ֣יוReuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons, if I don’t bring him to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him to you again.”Genesis 43:2 · אֲבִיהֶ֔םIt happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”Genesis 43:7 · אֲבִיכֶ֥םThey said, “The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down?’”Genesis 43:8 · אָבִ֗יוJudah said to Israel, his father, “Send the boy with me, and we’ll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.Genesis 43:11 · אֲבִיהֶ֗םTheir father, Israel, said to them, “If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;Genesis 43:23 · אֲבִיכֶם֙He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.Genesis 43:27 · אֲבִיכֶ֥םHe asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”Genesis 43:28 · לְאָבִ֖ינוּThey said, “Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive.” They bowed down humbly.Genesis 44:17 · אֲבִיכֶֽם׃ פHe said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”Genesis 44:19 · אָ֖בMy lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’Genesis 44:20 · אָ֣ב · וְאָבִ֥יוWe said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’Genesis 44:22 · אָבִ֑יו · אָבִ֖יוWe said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’Genesis 44:24 · אָבִ֑יIt happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.Genesis 44:25 · אָבִ֑ינוּOur father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’Genesis 44:27 · אָבִ֖יYour servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons:Genesis 44:30 · אָבִ֔יNow therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;Genesis 44:31 · אָבִ֛ינוּit will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.Genesis 44:32 · אָבִ֖י · לְאָבִ֖יFor your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’Genesis 44:34 · אָבִ֔י · אָבִֽי׃For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”Genesis 45:3 · אָבִ֖יJoseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.Genesis 45:8 · לְאָ֜בSo now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.Genesis 45:9 · אָבִי֒Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.Genesis 45:13 · לְאָבִ֗י · אָבִ֖יYou shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.”Genesis 45:18 · אֲבִיכֶ֛םTake your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’Genesis 45:19 · אֲבִיכֶ֖םNow you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.Genesis 45:23 · וּלְאָבִ֞יו · לְאָבִ֖יוHe sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.Genesis 45:25 · אֲבִיהֶֽם׃They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.Genesis 45:27 · אֲבִיהֶֽם׃They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.Genesis 46:1 · אָבִ֥יוIsrael traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.Genesis 46:3 · אָבִ֑יךָHe said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.Genesis 46:5 · אֲבִיהֶ֗םJacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.Genesis 46:29 · אָבִ֖יוJoseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.Genesis 46:31 · אָבִ֔יו · אָבִ֛יJoseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.Genesis 46:34 · אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּthat you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”Genesis 47:1 · אָבִ֨יThen Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.”Genesis 47:3 · אֲבוֹתֵֽינוּ׃Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.”Genesis 47:5 · אָבִ֥יךָPharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.Genesis 47:6 · אָבִ֖יךָThe land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”Genesis 47:7 · אָבִ֔יוJoseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Genesis 47:9 · אֲבֹתַ֔יJacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”Genesis 47:11 · אָבִ֣יוJoseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.Genesis 47:12 · אָבִ֣יו · אָבִ֑יוJoseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.Genesis 47:30 · אֲבֹתַ֔יbut when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”Genesis 48:1 · אָבִ֖יךָIt happened after these things, that someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.Genesis 48:9 · אָבִ֔יוJoseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”Genesis 48:15 · אֲבֹתַ֤יHe blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,Genesis 48:16 · אֲבֹתַ֖יthe angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”Genesis 48:17 · אָבִ֧יו · אָבִ֗יוWhen Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.Genesis 48:18 · אָבִ֖יו · אָבִ֑יJoseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”Genesis 48:19 · אָבִ֗יוHis father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations.”
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