Strong's G3962 πατήρ (pater)

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those that dwell in tents, feeding cattle.

Now the sons of Noah which came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, Japheth. And Ham was father of Canaan.

And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.

And Shem and Japheth having taken a garment, put it on both their backs and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their face was backward, and they saw not the nakedness of their father.

And to Shem himself also were children born, the father of all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder.

And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.

And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor, Milcah, daughter of Haran, and he was the father of Milcah, the father of Iscah.

And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.

And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for I have made thee a father of many nations.

And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth.

Come and let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father.

So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do thou go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.

So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose.

And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father.

And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day.

And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammonites to this present day.

For truly she is my sister by my father, but not by my mother, and she became my wife.

And it came to pass when God brought me forth out of the house of my father, that I said to her, This righteousness thou shalt perform to me, in every place into which we may enter, say of me, He is my brother.

And Isaac said to Abraham his father, Father. And he said, What is it, son? And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, where is the sheep for a whole burnt offering?

Uz the firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of the Syrians, and Chesed, and

The Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father’s house, and out of the land whence I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to thee and to thy seed, he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife to my son from thence.

And he asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me if there is room for us to lodge with thy father.

But thou shalt go to the house of my father, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son.

And he said to me, The Lord God to whom I have been acceptable in his presence, himself shall send out his angel with thee, and shall prosper thy journey, and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my tribe, and of the house of my father.

And sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee, and bless thee, for I will give to thee and to thy seed all this land; and I will establish my oath which I swore to thy father Abraham.

Because Abraham thy father hearkened to my voice, and kept my injunctions, and my commandments, and my ordinances, and my statutes.

And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.

And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.

And the Lord appeared to him in that night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for the sake of Abraham thy father.

And Rebekah heard Isaac speaking to Esau his son; and Esau went to the plain to procure venison for his father.

And Rebekah said to Jacob her younger son, Behold, I heard thy father speaking to Esau thy brother, saying,

And go to the cattle and take for me thence two kids, tender and good, and I will make them meats for thy father, as he likes.

And thou shalt bring them in to thy father, and he shall eat, that thy father may bless thee before he dies.

Peradventure my father may feel me, and I shall be before him as one ill intentioned, and I shall bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing.

So he went and took and brought them to his mother; and his mother made meats, as his father liked them.

And he brought them to his father, and said, Father; and he said, Behold I am here; who art thou, son?

And Jacob said to his father, I, Esau thy firstborn, have done as thou toldest me; rise, sit, and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And Jacob drew nigh to his father Isaac, and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And Isaac his father said to him, Draw nigh to me, and kiss me, son.

And let nations serve thee, And princes bow down to thee, And be thou lord of thy brother, And the sons of thy father shall do thee reverence; Accursed is he that curses thee, And blessed is he that blesses thee.

And it came to pass after Isaac had ceased blessing his son Jacob, it even came to pass, just when Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And he also had made meats and brought them to his father; and he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And Isaac his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy firstborn son Esau.

And it came to pass when Esau heard the words of his father Isaac, he cried out with a great and very bitter cry, and said, Bless, I pray thee, me also, father.

And he said, Rightly was his name called Jacob, for lo! this second time has he supplanted me; he has both taken my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing; and Esau said to his father, Hast thou not left a blessing for me, father?

And Esau said to his father, Hast thou only one blessing, father? Bless, I pray thee, me also, father. And Isaac being troubled, Esau cried aloud and wept.

And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above.

And Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing, with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his mind, Let the days of my father’s mourning draw nigh, that I may slay my brother Jacob.

Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraham, even to thee and to thy seed after thee, to inherit the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.

and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.

And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Canaan were evil before his father Isaac,

And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.

While he was yet speaking to them, behold, Rachel the daughter of Laban came with her father’s sheep, for she fed the sheep of her father.

And he told Rachel that he was the near relative of her father, and the son of Rebekah; and she ran and reported to her father according to these words.

And Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and of our father’s property has he gotten all this glory.

And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.

And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.

And ye too know that with all my might I have served your father.

But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.

So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Have we yet a part or inheritance in the house of our father?

All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be ours and our children’s; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.

and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.

And now my hand has power to hurt thee; but the God of thy father spoke to me yesterday, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not evil words to Jacob.

Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

And she said to her father, Be not indignant, Sir; I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and found not the images.

Unless I had the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, thou art he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of thy birth, and I will do thee good.

And he bought the portion of the field, where he pitched his tent, of Hamor the father of Shechem, for a hundred lambs.

Shechem spoke to Hamor his father, saying, Take for me this damsel to wife.

And Hamor the father of Shechem went forth to Jacob, to speak to him.

And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, I would find grace before you, and we will give whatever ye shall name.

And the sons of Jacob answered to Shechem and Hamor his father craftily, and spoke to them, because they had defiled Dinah their sister.

And the young man delayed not to do this thing, for he was much attached to Jacob’s daughter, and he was the most honorable of all in his father’s house.

And it came to pass in her giving up the ghost (for she was dying), that she called his name, The son of my pain; but his father called his name Benjamin.

And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, the concubine of his father Jacob; and Israel heard, and the thing appeared grievous before him. And the sons of Jacob were twelve.

And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to a city of the plain; this is Hebron in the land of Canaan, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom in the Mount Seir.

And these are the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah; this is the Anah who found Jamin in the wilderness, when he tended the beasts of his father Zibeon.

chief Magdiel, chief Zaphoin. These are the chiefs of Edom in their dwelling places, in the land of their possession; this is Esau, the father of Edom.

And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan.

And these are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brethren, being young; with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought to Israel their father their evil reproach.

And his brethren having seen that his father loved him more than all his sons, hated him, and could not speak anything peaceable to him.

And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence.

And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? shall indeed both I and thy mother and thy brethren come and bow before thee to the earth?

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

And his brethren went to feed the sheep of their father to Shechem.

And Reuben said to them, Shed not blood; cast him into one of these pits in the wilderness, but do not lay your hand upon him; that he might rescue him out of their hands, and restore him to his father.

And they sent the coat of many colors; and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found; know if it be thy son’s coat or no.

And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him.

And Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Sit thou a widow in the house of thy father-in-law, until Shelah my son be grown; for he said, Lest he also die as his brethren; and Tamar departed, and sat in the house of her father.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn, Manasseh; For God, said he, has made me forget all my toils, and all my father’s house.

And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is with our father today, but the other one is not.

And they came to their father, Jacob, into the land of Canaan, and reported to him all that had happened to them, saying,

We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with his father today in the land of Canaan.

And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, there was each man’s bundle of money in his sack; and they and their father saw their bundles of money, and they were afraid.

And their father Jacob said to them, Ye have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Simeon is not, and will ye take Benjamin? all these things have come upon me.

And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee; give him into my hand, and I will bring him back to thee.

And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again; buy us a little food.

And they said, The man closely questioned us about our family also, saying, Does your father yet live, and have ye a brother? and we answered him according to this question: did we know that he would say to us, Bring your brother?

And Judah said to his father Israel, Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and thou, and our store.

And Israel, their father, said to them, If it be so, do this; take of the fruits of the earth in your vessels, and carry down to the man presents of gum and honey, and frankincense, and stacte, and turpentine, and walnuts.

And he said to them, God deal mercifully with you; be not afraid; your God, and the God of your fathers, has given you treasures in your sacks, and I have enough of your good money. And he brought Simeon out to them.

And he asked them, How are ye? and he said to them, Is your father, the old man of whom ye spoke, well? Does he yet live?

And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God—and they bowed, and did him reverence.

And Joseph said, Far be it from me to do this thing; the man with whom the cup has been found, he shall be my servant; but do ye go up with safety to your father.

Sir, thou askedst thy servants, saying, Have ye a father or a brother?

And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and he has a son of his old age, a young one, and his brother is dead, and he alone has been left behind to his mother, and his father loves him.

And we said to my lord, The child will not be able to leave his father; but if he should leave his father, he will die.

And it came to pass, when we went up to thy servant our father, we reported to him the words of our lord.

And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.

And thy servant our father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons;