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Father names 3 things on this site
- Father, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Father, Forgive Them, a featured study.A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- Father-in-law, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Featured studies
15 results- StudyAbba, FatherA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyFather, Forgive ThemA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyHonour Your Father and MotherA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyJesus on the FatherA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyKnowing the FatherA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Subjects
1 resultVerses
1,487 results- VerseMatthew 1:7Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.
- VerseMatthew 1:13Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor.
- VerseRuth 4:19Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab,
- VerseRuth 4:20Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, Nahshon was the father of Salmon,
- VerseRuth 4:21Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,
People
12 results- PersonEsauIsaac's elder son who despised his birthright (Heb 12:16); father of Edom, Israel's perennial neighbor and adversary.
- PersonPhilipA disciple from Bethsaida who brought Nathanael to Jesus and asked "Show us the Father" (John 1:43-46; 14:8).
- PersonAbrahamCalled out of Ur, the father of all who believe, justified by faith, and the friend of God through whose seed all nations are blessed.
- PersonJacobThe heel-grasping supplanter reshaped at Peniel into 'Israel, he who strives with God' — father of the twelve tribes.
- PersonShemNoah's son through whom the covenant line runs (9:26); father of the Semitic peoples and ancestor of Abraham.
Places
2 results- PlaceMaltaThe island where Paul's ship ran aground after fourteen days adrift, where a viper did him no harm, the governor's father was healed, and the crew wintered three months before…
- PlaceCush (Ethiopia)Kingdom south of Egypt on the upper Nile, addressed among the nations in Zephaniah 2:12; Zephaniah's own lineage runs through a father named Cushi.
Words (Strong's)
- WordG3962 πατήρ · patḗr (Greek)a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote). The Greek word stands 410 times in the original text.
- WordH2 אַב · ʼab (Hebrew){father}. The Hebrew word stands 9 times in the original text.
- WordH1 אָב · ʼâb (Hebrew)father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application. The Hebrew word stands 1,212 times in the original text.
- WordG3971 πατρῷος · patrōios (Greek)paternal, i.e. hereditary. The Greek word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordG3967 πατρικός · patrikós (Greek)paternal, i.e. ancestral. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
4 results- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
- ThemeKingdom of God"The kingdom of God" names not a place first but a reign — God's kingly rule breaking in, which then produces a people and a realm who live under it. The storyline starts long…
- ThemeSalvationSalvation in Scripture is not a single transaction but a single story told from Eden to Revelation: God rescues a people who cannot rescue themselves, and He does it on His own…
Topics
3 resultsProphecies
4 results- ProphecyEverlasting FatherThe Messiah would possess eternal, fatherly care.
- ProphecyLoved by the FatherA messianic prophecy: what was spoken, where it was written, and where the New Testament takes it up.
- ProphecyCommitted Spirit to FatherThe Messiah would commit his spirit to God at death.
- ProphecyBorn of the Line of David through JesseIsaiah specified the Messiah would come from the 'stump of Jesse' — David's father — indicating the royal line would be cut down but would sprout again.
Voices
13 results- VoiceDesert FathersIn the second half of the third century, Christians began walking out of the Egyptian towns into the desert. By the middle of the fourth there were thousands of them, and by…
- VoiceTertullianQuintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus was born at Carthage around 155, trained in Roman law and rhetoric, and converted as an adult. Jerome says his father was an officer of…
- VoiceKenneth HaginKenneth Erwin Hagin (August 20, 1917 – September 19, 2003) was an American Pentecostal-Charismatic preacher, healing-revival evangelist, and the recognized "father" of the…
- 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…
- VoiceUlrich ZwingliHuldrych Zwingli was born on January 1, 1484, at Wildhaus in the Toggenburg valley of the Swiss Alps — seven weeks after Luther, in a mountain village where his father was the…
Apocrypha (study resources)
225 results- Study resourceSirach 3:3Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:25Wherefore a man loveth his wife better than father or mother.
- Study resourceTobit 11:11And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on his fathers’ eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.
- Study resourceTobit 10:9But Tobias said, No; but let me go to my father.
- Study resourceSirach 3:10Glory not in the dishonour of thy father; for thy father’s dishonour is no glory unto thee.
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G3962πατήρ patḗr — a "father" (literally or figuratively, near
or more remote)H2אַב ʼab — {father}H1אָב ʼâb — father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationG3971πατρῷος patrōios — paternal, i.e. hereditaryG3967πατρικός patrikós — paternal, i.e. ancestralH2524חָם châm — a father-in-law (as in affinity)