father
av identifies a male parent, forebears, and the family households traced through them.
The term most often marks paternal relationship in genealogies, succession, and named family connections. It also occurs in plural expressions for ancestral households and forebears, and in two stated father-son relations between God and a royal son.
Senses in use
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Paternal relation in genealogy and succession · dominant
The singular construct forms link named people in family statements: in 1 Chronicles 2:17 the APB renders Jether as Amasa's father, while 1 Chronicles 24:2 places Nadab and Abihu before their father. In 1 Chronicles 19:2 the same relation frames David's kindness and comfort toward Hanun after his father's death, and 1 Chronicles 29:23 identifies David in Solomon's succession.
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Ancestral households and forebears · common
Plural forms occur in expressions organizing people by paternal households: 1 Chronicles 23:24 speaks of the sons of Levi according to their fathers' houses and their heads, and 1 Chronicles 26:13 assigns lots according to the house of their fathers. The plural also denotes forebears as a collective: in 1 Chronicles 17:11 the APB renders going to one's fathers, and in 1 Chronicles 29:15 it compares the present people with all their fathers.
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Father in a stated God-son relationship · rare
In 1 Chronicles 17:13 the singular absolute form appears in the declaration, rendered by the APB as “I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to me.” 1 Chronicles 22:10 repeats the same father-son relation while speaking of the son who will build a house for God's name.
In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB commonly presents the singular relation with “father” and plural household expressions with “fathers' houses” or “fathers.” In the father-son declarations it renders the relation explicitly as “a father” and “a son,” but the paraphrase is not word-aligned.