Occurrences
ʼab occurs 9 times in 7 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ezra (2), Daniel (5)
- Ezra 4:15 — That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers (אֲבָהָתָ֗ךְ): so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
- Ezra 5:12 — But after that our fathers (אֲבָהֳתַ֙נָא֙) had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
- Daniel 2:23 — I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers (אֲבָהָתִ֗י), who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.
- Daniel 5:2 — Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father (אֲב֔וּהִי) Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 5:11 — There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father (אֲב֗וּךְ) light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
- Daniel 5:11 — There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father (אֲב֔וּךְ), the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
- Daniel 5:11 — There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father (אֲב֥וּךְ), made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
- Daniel 5:13 — Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father (אַ֖בִי) brought out of Jewry?
- Daniel 5:18 — O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father (אֲבֽוּךְ) a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: