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אָב av

“father” · 1,213 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 208 timesExodus: 24 timesLeviticus: 25 timesNumbers: 85 timesDeuteronomy: 71 timesJoshua: 35 timesJudges: 54 timesRuth: 3 times1 Samuel: 54 times2 Samuel: 28 times1 Kings: 95 times2 Kings: 70 times1 Chronicles: 106 times2 Chronicles: 123 timesEzra: 14 timesNehemiah: 20 timesEsther: 3 timesJob: 9 timesPsalms: 19 timesProverbs: 26 timesEcclesiastes: 0 timesSong of Songs: 0 timesIsaiah: 21 timesJeremiah: 63 timesLamentations: 2 timesEzekiel: 27 timesDaniel: 8 timesHosea: onceJoel: onceAmos: 2 timesObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 0 timesMicah: 2 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 0 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: 0 timesZechariah: 7 timesMalachi: 7 timesMatthew: 63 timesMark: 18 timesLuke: 56 timesJohn: 136 timesActs: 35 timesRomans: 14 times1 Corinthians: 6 times2 Corinthians: 5 timesGalatians: 5 timesEphesians: 11 timesPhilippians: 4 timesColossians: 5 times1 Thessalonians: 5 times2 Thessalonians: 3 times1 Timothy: 2 times2 Timothy: onceTitus: oncePhilemon: onceHebrews: 9 timesJames: 4 times1 Peter: 3 times2 Peter: 2 times1 John: 14 times2 John: 4 times3 John: 0 timesJude: onceRevelation: 5 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “father” 926
  • “families” 100
  • “forefathers” 22
  • “them” 11
  • “(not translated)” 8
  • other ways 146
  • patēr, the Greek the New Testament uses for it 413

In the New Testament it continues as patēr: Hebrews 1:5 quotes 2 Samuel 7:14, and puts this word in Greek.

As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis208
Exodus24
Leviticus25
Numbers85
Deuteronomy71
Joshua35
Judges54
Ruth3
1 Samuel54
2 Samuel28
1 Kings95
2 Kings70
1 Chronicles106
2 Chronicles123
Ezra14
Nehemiah20
Esther3
Job9
Psalms19
Proverbs26
Isaiah21
Jeremiah63
Lamentations2
Ezekiel27
Daniel8
Hosea1
Joel1
Amos2
Micah2
Zechariah7
Malachi7
Matthew63
Mark18
Luke56
John136
Acts35
Romans14
1 Corinthians6
2 Corinthians5
Galatians5
Ephesians11
Philippians4
Colossians5
1 Thessalonians5
2 Thessalonians3
1 Timothy2
2 Timothy1
Titus1
Philemon1
Hebrews9
James4
1 Peter3
2 Peter2
1 John14
2 John4
Jude1
Revelation5

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. father926
  2. families100
  3. forefathers22
  4. them11
  5. Not translated: the English carries it without a word8
  6. father of6
  7. according to their families5
  8. as his father5
  9. whereas my father5
  10. fathers did3
  11. grandfather3
  12. like their fathers3
  13. 100 other ways116
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
  • father 1209
  • (Huram)-abi 2
  • father of 2

With a pronoun joined

Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“father” 926
  • Genesis 80

    • 2:24 …a man will leave his father and mother and be…
    • 4:20 …to Jabal he was the father of those who dwell…
    • 4:21 …was Jubal he was the father of all who play…
    • 9:18 …and Japheth And Ham was the father of Canaan…
    • 9:22 …And Ham the father of Canaan saw his…
    • 9:22 …father of Canaan saw his father’s nakedness and told his…
    • 9:23 …walking backward they covered their father’s nakedness Their faces were…
    • 9:23 …they did not see their father’s nakedness…
    • 11:28 …During his father Terah’s lifetime Haran died…
    • 12:1 …your country your kindred and your father’s household and go to…
    • 15:15 …however will go to your fathers in peace and be…
    • 17:4 …you You will be the father of many nations…
    • 17:5 …I have made you a father of many nations…
    • 19:31 …said to the younger Our father is old and there…
    • 19:33 …in and slept with her father he was not aware…
    • 19:34 …Look I slept with my father last night Let us…
    • 19:34 …and we can preserve our father’s line…
    • 19:36 …Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father
    • 19:37 …named him Moab He is the father of the Moabites of…
    • 19:38 …named him Ben ammi He is the father of the Ammonites of…
    • 20:12 …my sister the daughter of my father though not the daughter…
    • 20:13 …God had me journey from my father’s house I said to…
    • 22:7 …Then Isaac said to his father Abraham My father Here…
    • 22:7 …to his father Abraham My father Here I am my…
    • 22:21 …his brother Buz Kemuel the father of Aram…
    • 24:7 …heaven who brought me from my father’s house and my native…
    • 24:23 …me is there room in your father’s house for us to…
    • 24:38 …you shall go to my father’s house and to my…
    • 24:40 …son from my kindred and from my father’s house…
    • 26:3 …oath that I swore to your father Abraham…
    • 26:15 …all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in…
    • 26:15 …dug in the days of his father Abraham…
    • 26:18 …dug in the days of his father Abraham which the Philistines…
    • 26:18 …wells the same names his father had given them…
    • 26:24 …I am the God of your father Abraham Do not be…
    • 27:6 …Jacob Behold I overheard your father saying to your brother…
    • 27:9 …into a tasty dish for your father the kind he loves…
    • 27:10 …Then take it to your father to eat so that…
    • 27:12 …What if my father touches me Then I…
    • 27:14 …made the tasty food his father loved…
    • 27:18 …So Jacob went to his father and said My father…
    • 27:18 …his father and said My father Here I am he…
    • 27:19 …Jacob said to his father I am Esau your…
    • 27:22 …Jacob came close to his father Isaac who touched him…
    • 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him…
    • 27:30 …and Jacob had left his father’s presence his brother Esau…
    • 27:31 …some tasty food brought it to his father and said to him…
    • 27:31 …and said to him My father sit up and eat…
    • 27:32 But his father Isaac replied Who are…
    • 27:34 …When Esau heard his father’s words he let out…
    • 27:34 …bitter cry and said to his father Bless me too O…
    • 27:38 …Esau said to his father Do you have only…
    • 27:38 …have only one blessing my father Bless me too O…
    • 27:39 His father Isaac answered him Behold…
    • 27:41 …because of the blessing his father had given him And…
    • 27:41 …The days of mourning for my father are at hand then…
    • 28:2 …house of your mother’s father Bethuel and take a…
    • 28:7 …that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone…
    • 28:8 …And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the…
    • 28:13 …the LORD the God of your father Abraham and the God…
    • 28:21 …may return safely to my father’s house then the LORD…
    • 29:9 …them Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep for she was…
    • 29:12 …Rebekah’s son a relative of her father and she ran and…
    • 29:12 …she ran and told her father
    • 31:1 …all that belonged to our father and built all this…
    • 31:3 …back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred…
    • 31:5 …them I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude…
    • 31:5 …changed but the God of my father has been with me…
    • 31:6 …that I have served your father with all my strength…
    • 31:9 …God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them…
    • 31:14 …portion or inheritance left in our father’s house…
    • 31:16 …God has taken away from our father belongs to us and…
    • 31:18 …aram to go to his father Isaac in the land…
    • 31:19 …his sheep Rachel stole her father’s household idols…
    • 31:29 …last night the God of your father said to me Be…
    • 31:30 …off because you long for your father’s house But why have…
    • 31:35 …Rachel said to her father Sir do not be…
    • 31:42 …If the God of my father the God of Abraham…
    • 31:53 …of Nahor the God of their father judge between us So…
    • 31:53 …swore by the Fear of his father Isaac…

And 846 more, on the full page.

“families” 100
  • Exodus 2

    • 6:25 …heads of the Levite families by their clans…
    • 12:3 …must select a lamb for his family one per household…
  • Numbers 34

    • 1:2 …Israel by their clans and families listing every man by…
    • 1:18 …their ancestry by clans and families counting one by one…
    • 1:20 …records of their clans and families counting one by one…
    • 1:22 …records of their clans and families counting one by one…
    • 1:24 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:26 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:28 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:30 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:32 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:34 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:36 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:38 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:40 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 1:42 …records of their clans and families counting the names of…
    • 2:2 …standard with the banners of his family
    • 2:34 …with his clan and his family
    • 3:15 …Number the Levites by their families and clans You are…
    • 3:24 …and the leader of the families of the Gershonites was…
    • 3:30 …and the leader of the families of the Kohathites was…
    • 3:35 …The leader of the families of the Merarites was…
    • 4:2 …Levites by their clans and families
    • 4:22 …the Gershonites as well by their families and clans…
    • 4:29 …them by their clans and families
    • 4:34 …Kohathites by their clans and families
    • 4:38 …numbered by their clans and families
    • 4:40 …numbered by their clans and families totaled…
    • 4:42 …numbered by their clans and families
    • 4:46 …numbered by their clans and families all the Levites…
    • 7:2 …of Israel the heads of their families presented an offering These…
    • 25:14 …leader of a Simeonite family
    • 25:15 …chief of a Midianite family
    • 31:26 …and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation…
    • 32:28 …Joshua son of Nun and to the family leaders of the tribes…
    • 36:1 Now the family heads of the clan…
  • Joshua 7

    • 2:12 …indeed show kindness to my family because I showed kindness…
    • 2:18 …and brothers and all your family into your house…
    • 14:1 …Nun and the heads of the families of the tribes of…
    • 19:51 …Nun and the heads of the families distributed by lot to…
    • 21:1 Now the family heads of the Levites…
    • 22:14 …sent ten chiefs one family leader from each tribe…
    • 22:14 …Israel each the head of a family among the clans of…
  • 1 Chronicles 32

    • 4:38 …leaders of their clans Their families increased greatly…
    • 5:15 …of Guni was head of their family
    • 5:24 …These were the heads of their families Epher Ishi Eliel Azriel…
    • 5:24 …famous men and heads of their families
    • 7:2 …and Shemuel the heads of their families In the days of…
    • 7:7 …Jerimoth and Iri heads of their families five in all There…
    • 7:9 …according to the heads of their families mighty men of valor…
    • 7:11 …of Jediael were heads of their families mighty men of valor…
    • 7:40 …descendants of Asher heads of their families choice and mighty men…
    • 8:6 …who were the heads of the families living in Geba and…
    • 8:10 …were his sons heads of families
    • 8:13 …who were the heads of families living in Aijalon and…
    • 8:28 …All these were heads of families the chiefs according to…
    • 9:9 …these men were heads of their families
    • 9:9 …these men were heads of their families
    • 9:13 …their relatives the heads of their families able men for the…
    • 9:33 …the heads of Levite families stayed in the temple…
    • 9:34 …were heads of Levite families chiefs according to their…
    • 15:12 …heads of the Levitical families You and your relatives…
    • 23:9 …These were the heads of the families of Ladan…
    • 23:24 …the descendants of Levi by their families the heads of families…
    • 23:24 …their families the heads of families registered individually by name…
    • 24:4 …There were sixteen heads of families from the descendants of…
    • 24:6 …Abiathar and the heads of families of the priests and…
    • 24:6 …and the Levites one family being taken from Eleazar…
    • 24:31 …Ahimelech and the heads of the families of the priests and…
    • 24:31 …the priests and Levites the family heads and their younger…
    • 26:21 …through Ladan and heads of the families of Ladan the Gershonite…
    • 26:26 …David by the heads of families who were the commanders…
    • 26:32 …men who were heads of families King David appointed them…
    • 27:1 …the Israelites the heads of families the commanders of thousands…
    • 29:6 …Then the leaders of the families the officers of the…
  • 2 Chronicles 5

    • 1:2 …all Israel the heads of the families
    • 19:8 …heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf…
    • 23:2 …Judah and the heads of the families of Israel And when…
    • 26:12 …The total number of family leaders of the mighty…
    • 35:4 …Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions according…

And 20 more, on the full page.

“forefathers” 22
  • Genesis 1

    • 10:21 …brother of Japheth Shem was the forefather of all the sons…
  • Judges 1

    • 18:29 …named it Dan after their forefather Dan who was born…
  • 1 Chronicles 2

    • 24:19 …regulations prescribed for them by their forefather Aaron as the LORD…
    • 29:15 …presence as were all our forefathers Our days on earth…
  • Nehemiah 1

    • 13:18 …Did not your forefathers do the same things…
  • Isaiah 1

    • 14:21 …sons for the iniquities of their forefathers They will never rise…
  • Jeremiah 12

    • 11:4 …which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them…
    • 11:5 …the oath I swore to your forefathers to give them a…
    • 11:10 …returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey…
    • 16:15 …land that I gave to their forefathers
    • 17:22 …just as I commanded your forefathers
    • 34:13 …made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them…
    • 35:6 …wine they replied for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab…
    • 35:8 …have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab…
    • 35:10 …and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us…
    • 35:14 …have obeyed the command of their forefather But I have spoken…
    • 35:16 …carried out the command their forefather gave them but these…
    • 35:18 …have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept…
  • Ezekiel 2

    • 36:28 …land that I gave your forefathers you will be My…
    • 47:14 …uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers this land will fall…
  • Daniel 2

    • 11:24 …do what his fathers and forefathers never did He will…
    • 11:24 …do what his fathers and forefathers never did He will…
“them” 11
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 19:8 …the land He promised them
  • Joshua 1

    • 24:6 …Sea the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen…
  • 1 Kings 3

    • 14:31 …and was buried with them in the City of…
    • 15:24 …and was buried with them in the city of…
    • 22:50 …and was buried with them in the city of…
  • 2 Kings 4

    • 8:24 …and was buried with them in the City of…
    • 15:7 …and was buried near them in the City of…
    • 15:38 …and was buried with them in the City of…
    • 16:20 …and was buried with them in the City of…
  • 2 Chronicles 2

    • 21:1 …and was buried with them in the City of…
    • 26:23 …and was buried near them in a field of…
Not translated: the English carries it without a word 8
“father of” 6
  • 1 Chronicles 6

    • 2:42 …Mesha his firstborn who was the father of Ziph and Mareshah his…
    • 2:45 …was Maon and Maon was the father of Beth zur…
    • 2:51 …Salma the father of Bethlehem and Hareph the…
    • 4:4 …of Gedor and Ezer was the father of Hushah These were the…
    • 4:5 …Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives…
    • 7:31 …well as Malchiel who was the father of Birzaith…
“according to their families” 5
  • Numbers 3

    • 1:45 …Israel’s army were counted according to their families
    • 2:32 …are the Israelites numbered according to their families The total of those…
    • 3:20 …clans of the Levites according to their families
  • 1 Chronicles 2

    • 24:30 …sons of the Levites according to their families
    • 26:13 …lots for each gate according to their families young and old alike…
“as his father” 5
  • 1 Kings 2

    • 11:4 …the LORD his God as his father David had been…
    • 15:11 …eyes of the LORD as his father David had done…
  • 2 Kings 2

    • 3:2 …the LORD but not as his father and mother had done…
    • 14:3 …the LORD but not as his father David had done He…
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 33:23 …himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done instead…
“whereas my father” 5
  • 1 Kings 3

    • 12:11 …add to your yoke Whereas my father scourged you with whips…
    • 12:14 …men had advised saying Whereas my father made your yoke heavy…
    • 12:14 …add to your yoke Whereas my father scourged you with whips…
  • 2 Chronicles 2

    • 10:11 …add to your yoke Whereas my father scourged you with whips…
    • 10:14 …add to your yoke Whereas my father scourged you with whips…
“fathers did” 3
  • Judges 1

    • 2:22 …walking in it as their fathers did
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 24:2 …and Abihu died before their father did and they had no…
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 20:30 …defile yourselves the way your fathers did prostituting yourselves with their…
“grandfather” 3
  • 2 Samuel 3

    • 9:7 …you all the land of your grandfather Saul and you will…
    • 16:3 …to me the kingdom of my grandfather
    • 19:28 …For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my…
“than my father’s” 3
  • 1 Kings 2

    • 12:10 …little finger is thicker than my father’s waist…
    • 19:4 …I am no better than my fathers
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 10:10 …little finger is thicker than my father’s waist…
“like their fathers” 3
  • 2 Kings 1

    • 17:14 …they stiffened their necks like their fathers who did not believe…
  • Psalms 2

    • 78:8 …they will not be like their fathers a stubborn and rebellious…
    • 78:57 …back and were faithless like their fathers twisted like a faulty…
“got their father” 2
  • Genesis 2

    • 19:33 …So that night they got their father drunk with wine and…
    • 19:35 …So again that night they got their father drunk with wine and…
“him” 2
  • Genesis 2

    • 27:31 …his father and said to him My father sit up…
    • 44:34 …misery that would overwhelm him
“o my father” 2
  • Genesis 2

    • 27:34 …father Bless me too O my father
    • 27:38 …father Bless me too O my father Then Esau wept aloud…
“nor your grandfathers” 2
  • Exodus 2

    • 10:6 …something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the…
    • 10:6 …something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the…
“give their fathers” 2
  • Numbers 1

    • 14:23 …land that I swore to give their fathers None of those who…
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 31:20 …land that I swore to give their fathers a land flowing with…
“than their fathers” 2
  • Judges 1

    • 2:19 …became even more corrupt than their fathers going after other gods…
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 7:26 …and did more evil than their fathers
“when your father” 2
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 13:5 …pretend you are ill When your father comes to see you…
  • Zechariah 1

    • 8:14 …bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger…
“family leaders” 2
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 8:1 …all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites to…
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 5:2 …all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites to…
“ancestors” 2
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 26:31 …according to the genealogies of his ancestors In the fortieth year…
  • Nehemiah 1

    • 9:32 …our priests and prophets our ancestors and all Your people…
“like your fathers” 2
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 30:7 …Do not be like your fathers and brothers who were…
  • Zechariah 1

    • 1:4 …Do not be like your fathers to whom the former…
“than your father” 2
  • Job 1

    • 15:10 …side men much older than your father
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 16:12 …have done more evil than your fathers See how each of…
“nor their fathers” 2
  • Jeremiah 2

    • 9:16 …nations that neither they nor their fathers have known and I…
    • 19:4 …gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of…
“own father’s” 2
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 12:6 …Even your brothers your own father’s household even they have…
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 22:11 …another violates his sister his own father’s daughter…
“nor your fathers” 2
  • Jeremiah 2

    • 16:13 …land that neither you nor your fathers have known There you…
    • 44:3 …neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew…
“who was the father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 11:29 …the daughter of Haran who was the father of both Milcah and…
“both milcah” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 11:29 …who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah…
“us get our father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 19:32 …Come let us get our father drunk with wine so…
“his” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 19:32 …with him and preserve his line…
“father’s expense” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 31:1 …all this wealth at our father’s expense
“although he” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 31:7 And although he has cheated me and…
“dinah’s father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 34:11 …Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers Grant me…
“where his father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 37:1 …lived in the land where his father had resided the land…
“one father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 42:32 …are twelve brothers sons of one father One is no more…
“if my father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 44:30 …return to your servant and if my father whose life is wrapped…
“before you my father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 44:32 …will bear the guilt before you, my father all my life…
“bury his father” 1
  • Genesis 1

    • 50:14 …had gone with him to bury his father
“father as high priest” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 16:32 …and ordained to succeed his father as high priest shall make atonement He…
“either your father’s” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 18:9 …relations with your sister either your father’s daughter or your mother’s…
“even for his father” 1
  • Leviticus 1

    • 21:11 …must not defile himself even for his father or mother…
“each family” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 1:4 …each tribe the head of each family must be there with…
“representing his family” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 1:44 …of Israel each one representing his family
“even if his father” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 6:7 Even if his father or mother or brother…
“if her father” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 12:14 …the LORD answered Moses If her father had but spit in…
“tribe” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 17:2 …the leader of each tribe Write each man’s name…
“each tribe” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 17:3 …staff for the head of each tribe
“tribes” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 17:6 …each of the leaders of their tribes twelve staffs in all…
“how our fathers” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 20:15 how our fathers went down to Egypt…
“but” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 30:4 …her vow or pledge but says nothing to her…
“still in his” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 30:16 …and a young daughter still in his home…
“gadites” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 34:14 …of the Reubenites and Gadites along with the half…
“who were the heads” 1
  • Numbers 1

    • 36:1 …Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families…
“give your fathers” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 6:18 …LORD your God swore to give your fathers
“father’s estate” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 18:8 …money from the sale of his father’s estate
“more than your fathers” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 30:5 …to prosper and multiply more than your fathers
“which your fathers” 1
  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 32:17 …to newly arrived gods which your fathers did not fear…
“arba was the forefather” 1
  • Joshua 1

    • 15:13 …arba that is Hebron Arba was the forefather of Anak…
“arba was the father” 1
  • Joshua 1

    • 21:11 …hill country of Judah Arba was the father of Anak…
“abraham” 1
  • Joshua 1

    • 24:2 …including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor lived beyond…
“mother” 1
  • Judges 1

    • 9:1 …to all the clan of his mother
“fathers up” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 12:6 …Aaron and who brought your fathers up out of the land…
“as it was against your fathers” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 12:15 …will be against you as it was against your fathers
“would he” 1
  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 20:2 …telling me So why would he hide this matter from…
“over your father” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 6:21 …LORD who chose me over your father and all his house…
“moreover your father is” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 17:8 …robbed of her cubs Moreover, your father is a man of war…
“saul’s father” 1
  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 21:14 …Benjamin in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish After they had…
“against my father” 1
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 5:3 …waged on all sides against my father David he could not…
“unlike his father” 1
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 11:6 …sight of the LORD unlike his father David he did not…
“as solomon’s father” 1
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 11:33 …My statutes and judgments as Solomon’s father David did…
“forefather had been” 1
  • 1 Kings 1

    • 15:3 …the heart of David his forefather had been
“who was the father of” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 2:42 …Mareshah his second son who was the father of Hebron…
“machbenah” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 2:49 …and of Sheva father of Machbenah and Gibea Caleb’s daughter…
“sons” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 4:3 …These were the sons of Etam Jezreel Ishma…
“families were” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 5:13 …Their kinsmen by families were Michael Meshullam Sheba Jorai…
“listed according to their fathers” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 6:19 …clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers
“according to their genealogy” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 7:4 …In addition to them according to their genealogy they had troops for…
“jeiel the father” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 8:29 Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in…
“korahites” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 9:19 …Korah and his relatives from the Korahites were assigned to guard…
“just as their fathers” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 9:19 …thresholds of the Tent just as their fathers had been assigned to…
“own family” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 12:28 …of valor with commanders from his own family
“among their own clans” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 12:30 …men of valor famous among their own clans
“one family” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 23:11 …they were counted as one family and received a single…
“over their families” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 26:6 …born sons who ruled over their families because they were strong…
“chose my father’s” 1
  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 28:4 …the house of Judah He chose my father’s household and from my…
“huram abi” 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 2:13 …I am sending you Huram-abi a skillful man endowed…
“all these objects that huram abi” 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 4:16 …all the other articles All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon…
“zechariah’s father” 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 24:22 …remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to…
“assigned them according to their families” 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 25:5 …the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands…
“as your fathers did” 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 30:8 …not stiffen your necks as your fathers did Submit to the LORD…
“enrolled according to” 1
  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 31:17 …and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the…
“who were family” 1
  • Ezra 1

    • 10:16 …the priest selected men who were family heads each of them…
“represent their families” 1
  • Ezra 1

    • 10:16 …them identified by name to represent their families On the first day…
“where my fathers” 1
  • Nehemiah 1

    • 2:5 …Judah to the city where my fathers are buried so that…
“when her father” 1
  • Esther 1

    • 2:7 …in form and appearance and when her father and mother had died…
“as would a father” 1
  • Job 1

    • 31:18 …youth I reared him as would a father and from my mother’s…
“as a father” 1
  • Psalms 1

    • 103:13 As a father has compassion on his…
“as does a father” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 3:12 …the one He loves as does a father the son in whom…
“heeds his father’s” 1
  • Proverbs 1

    • 13:1 …A wise son heeds his father’s discipline but a mocker…
“within his father’s” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 3:6 …will seize his brother within his father’s house You have a…
“everlasting father” 1
  • Isaiah 1

    • 9:6 …Wonderful Counselor Mighty God Everlasting Father Prince of Peace…
“did your fathers” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 2:5 …LORD says What fault did your fathers find in Me that…
“gave to your fathers” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 3:18 …to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance…
“what our fathers” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 3:24 …shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for their…
“loss of a father” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 16:7 …will be given for the loss of a father or mother…
“father the news” 1
  • Jeremiah 1

    • 20:15 …the man who brought my father the news saying A son is…
“fatherless” 1
  • Lamentations 1

    • 5:3 …We have become fatherless orphans our mothers are…
“both father” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 18:4 …soul belongs to Me both father and son are Mine…
“as for his father” 1
  • Ezekiel 1

    • 18:18 As for his father he will die for…
“fathers now” 1
  • Zechariah 1

    • 1:5 …Where are your fathers now And the prophets do…
“am a father” 1
  • Malachi 1

    • 1:6 …master But if I am a father where is My honor…

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.