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Featured studies
4 results- StudyMarriage and the HouseholdA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe High-Priestly LineOne family carried Israel's altar for a thousand years — until a priest arrived who needed no genealogy and would never die.
- StudyThe Nephilim and the GiantsFour words in Genesis 6 open two family trees — and a line of giants that Israel would meet at Hebron and finally bury at Gath.
- StudyThe Puritans & Pietists (1600–1730): church historyThe Reformation had opened the Bible. Now came the harder question: has it opened you? This is the century of the examined heart, the family altar, and the prayer meeting that would not quit.
Verses
195 results- VerseEphesians 3:15from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
- VerseLeviticus 21:2except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,
- VerseDeuteronomy 25:10And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
- VerseJob 16:7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
- Verse2 Chronicles 26:12The total number of family leaders of the mighty men of valor was 2,600.
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1 resultWords (Strong's)
- WordH4940 מִשְׁפָּחָה · mishpâchâh (Hebrew)a family, i.e. circle of relatives. The Hebrew word stands 303 times in the original text.
- WordH504 אֶלֶף · ʼeleph (Hebrew)a family. The Hebrew word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH1004 בַּיִת · bayith (Hebrew)a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.). The Hebrew word stands 2,046 times in the original text.
- WordG3965 πατριά · patriá (Greek)paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation). The Greek word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordH2945 טַף · ṭaph (Hebrew)a family (mostly used collectively in the singular). The Hebrew word stands 42 times in the original text.
Themes
3 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
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95 results- VoiceCassiodorusFlavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator was born about 485 at Scylacium in Calabria, in the toe of Italy, to a family that had served the state for generations. He served…
- VoiceJohn MacArthurJohn Fullerton MacArthur Jr. was born in Los Angeles on June 19, 1939, into a family line of preachers. His father, Jack MacArthur, was a pastor and radio preacher; the…
- VoiceEpiphanius ScholasticusEpiphanius was a Greek-speaking scholar who worked at Vivarium, the monastery Cassiodorus founded on his family estate in Calabria after retiring from a long career in the…
- VoiceThomas AquinasThomas was born about 1225 at Roccasecca, between Rome and Naples, the youngest son of the count of Aquino. His family sent him at five to the great Benedictine abbey of Monte…
- VoiceGregory PalamasGregory was born in 1296 at Constantinople, into a family close to the imperial court; his father was a senator and a tutor to the young emperor. Gregory was educated for the…
Apocrypha (study resources)
6 results- Study resourceTobit 5:10Then Tobit said unto him, Brother, shew me of what tribe and family thou art.
- Study resourceTobit 5:11To whom he said, Dost thou seek for a tribe or family, or an hired man to go with thy son? Then Tobit said unto him, I would know, brother, thy kindred and name.
- Study resourceAdditions to Esther 16:18For he that was the worker of these things, is hanged at the gates of Susa with all his family: God, who ruleth all things, speedily rendering vengeance to him according to his…
- Study resourceJudith 8:18For there arose none in our age, neither is there any now in these days neither tribe, nor family, nor people, nor city among us, which worship gods made with hands, as hath…
- Study resourceAdditions to Esther 14:5From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual…
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H4940מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpâchâh — a family, i.e. circle of relativesH504אֶלֶף ʼeleph — a familyH1004בַּיִת bayith — a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)G3965πατριά patriá — paternal descent, i.e.
(concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)H2945טַף ṭaph — a family (mostly used collectively in the singular)H8655תְּרָפִים tᵉrâphîym — Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol