Original Language Studio
Genesis 50:5
“My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1 · Hebrew
- Definition
- father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
- Derivation
- a primitive word;
- KJV renderings
- chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
- Grammar
- אָבִ֞ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- י — suffix (pronominal), 1st person, common, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 1,213 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:24Genesis 4:20Genesis 4:21Genesis 9:18Genesis 9:22
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אָב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.