Father

Father of many nations is the meaning embedded in the name Abraham — the Chronicler cites this to show that the name change from Abram was itself a covenantal declaration about what God intended to do through him.

Father is used here in its genealogical sense — Zadok's twenty-two commanders come from his father's house, grounding his military authority in ancestral lineage.

Father here refers to Michal's biological father Saul, whose kingly values she has internalized — the text uses her identity as Saul's daughter to explain her inability to understand David's worship.

Father appears here as part of God's covenant language — 'He will be my son, and I will be his Father' — establishing a relational bond between God and Solomon that carries dynastic and messianic weight far beyond a single reign.

Father here refers to Aaron as the biological and priestly ancestor — Nadab and Abihu died before him, which disrupted the natural succession of the priestly line.

Father here refers to Hosah himself in his parental role — the man who evaluated his sons and appointed Shimri as chief based on ability rather than birth order.

Father is used here in the relational, human sense — David speaking as Solomon's dad — but the language echoes God's own declaration that he will be a Father to Solomon, layering both meanings.

Father here refers to David in his human parental role — his deepest concern in his final prayer is not the Temple budget or blueprints, but whether Solomon will carry a devoted heart toward God.

Father appears here in reference to David — Absalom's rebellion was a son rising against his own father, the painful inversion of the family loyalty this genealogy otherwise celebrates.

The term 'father' appears here in its genealogical sense, introducing the chain of fathers and sons whose names form the backbone of Israel's tribal identity after returning from exile.

Father appears here in its literal familial sense — it is Jacob's household boundary that Reuben violated, and the phrase 'his father's bed' is the specific charge that cost Reuben his place in the family hierarchy.

Father is used here in the genealogical sense — each high priest passed the sacred office to his son, creating an unbroken chain of inherited responsibility across centuries.

The concept of fatherhood is at the heart of this passage — Ephraim's prolonged public mourning for his slain sons is held up as a model of grief that doesn't pretend, but names the pain honestly.

Father is used here in its literal, genealogical sense — Jonathan died alongside his father Saul at Mount Gilboa, a shared catastrophe that would have ended most family lines.

Father is used here in its familial sense — Jonathan died alongside his father Saul, yet the family line the Chronicler traces did not end with that catastrophic defeat.

Father is used here in a relational, pastoral sense — Paul distinguishes himself from the Corinthians' many instructors by claiming the unique bond of a parent who brought them into faith.

The Father is presented here as the singular source of all existence, the one true God from whom everything originates — Paul uses this title to anchor the cosmic irrelevance of every idol by comparison.

The Father is invoked here as the defining knowledge of the youngest believers — knowing God personally as Father is presented as the foundational spiritual reality of new faith.

The Father appears here as the one whose testimony about his Son surpasses all human testimony — John argues that rejecting what God says about Jesus is tantamount to calling God a liar.

The father role is highlighted here as a point of failure — David's refusal to ever confront or correct Adonijah as a parent directly contributed to the political crisis now unfolding.

Father is used here in the familial sense — Jonathan deliberately keeps his plan from Saul, signaling a breakdown in communication between son and king.

Father is used here in the literal sense — Jesse's own fatherly assumptions about who mattered led him to exclude David entirely, showing how human hierarchies can obscure God's choices.

Father here refers to Jesse in a literal sense — David had been tending his father's sheep, establishing the humble, ordinary life David is living before providence calls him to the valley.

Father appears here as the role Saul should be playing toward Michal but grotesquely isn't — rather than protecting his daughter's love, he weaponizes it, using her as bait in a scheme to get David killed.

The Father image is used here to describe Paul's own pastoral posture — but it echoes God the Father, whose kingdom and glory Paul is urging the Thessalonians to live worthy of.

The Father-figure dynamic is invoked here to describe Paul's relationship with Timothy, setting the tone of tender authority that runs through the entire letter.

Father is used here in its familial sense, identifying David as Solomon's biological parent and the king whose reign Solomon is stepping out of the shadow of.

Here 'father' refers to Solomon in a purely familial and political sense — the people use it to contrast the harshness of the previous reign with what they hope will be a more compassionate new king.

Father appears here in reference to Solomon — Rehoboam's biological father whose expanded kingdom Rehoboam has just squandered, heightening the weight of the inherited loss.

The phrase 'God of their fathers' appears here as the text's explanation for Judah's victory — their reliance on the ancestral covenant God, not military strength, is explicitly cited as the reason they prevailed.

The Father image appears as Paul's self-description — a parent who spends and is spent for his children without expecting repayment, contrasting his sacrificial model with the transactional ministry of his rivals.

Father appears here as God's climactic self-identification in the closing promise — those who draw the necessary relational boundaries are not losing community but gaining the deepest possible belonging.

The Father appears here as the one with whom Jesus shared perfect communion before the incarnation — the relationship whose full expression Jesus voluntarily set aside in coming to earth.

Father appears here in reference to Jehoahaz — Joash recovers the cities his father lost, framing the outcome as a generational consequence being partially repaired, while also echoing the chapter's theme of God as the faithful Father behind it all.

Father appears here in the legal principle from Moses: children are not executed for a father's sins, each person answering only for their own — a restraint Amaziah unusually honors.

Father here refers to Uzziah as Jotham's biological and royal predecessor — Jotham is explicitly evaluated by how closely he followed his father's example, inheriting both the faithfulness and the blind spots.

Father is used here to describe Ahaz in relation to Hezekiah — the irony being that the worst recent king of Judah raised a son who would become one of its best, reversing his father's damage.

The Father is referenced here as the voice Peter personally heard on the mountain, declaring Jesus the beloved Son — the divine affirmation that Peter grounds his entire eyewitness argument on.

Father is referenced here in its relational sense — David is honoring Nahash as Hanun's father, framing the condolence visit as an act of loyalty passed down through a paternal bond.

The identification of Bathsheba's father Eliam is part of the messenger's three-part warning that names her family connections — signaling she is not an anonymous woman but someone with ties to David's own circle.

Father is invoked here to sharpen the indictment against David — he had every resource, authority, and relational obligation to act for his daughter, and chose paralysis instead.

Father names the role David has failed to fully inhabit throughout this chapter — the kiss at the end gestures toward restoration, but the chapter leaves it an open question whether the relationship is truly healed.

Father is invoked here in the context of Paul's own spiritual fatherhood toward Timothy, mirroring the relational dynamic Paul sees between God and his people.

The Father is referenced here as the one Jesus is returning to — his destination after the Ascension, with authority to send the Spirit in his place.

The term appears here in reference to Timothy's Greek father, whose non-Jewish identity is the practical reason Paul arranges for Timothy's circumcision.

The phrase 'God of our fathers' is used by Ananias to anchor Paul's commission in Israel's ancestral covenant, reassuring the crowd that the same God who spoke to Abraham and Moses is speaking here.

Father refers here to Publius's biological father, who is bedridden with fever and dysentery — the man Paul heals through prayer and the laying on of hands, triggering a wave of healing across the island.

Father is the relational posture God takes here as he recounts his provision for Israel — destroying their enemies, leading them through the wilderness, raising up prophets — before revealing how deeply they have wounded that relationship.

Fathers are singled out here with a specific counter-cultural warning: don't provoke or discourage your children — a meaningful constraint on authority in a culture of near-absolute paternal power.

Father appears here in Moses' most intimate image of God — carrying Israel through the wilderness the way a parent physically carries a tired child, countering the people's fear with a picture of hands-on divine tenderness.

Father is invoked here as the relational frame for understanding God's strictness — like a parent who knows what lies beyond a dangerous line, his insistence on compliance is an expression of protective love, not arbitrary authority.

Father appears here as the relational identity underlying every rule in the chapter — God isn't a distant lawgiver but a present parent who has already chosen his children.

Father appears here in its human, familial sense — both parents together must bring the accusation, preventing any single angry father from wielding this law unilaterally against a son.

Father is invoked here through the parent-child analogy: just as children naturally imitate their parents, believers are to walk in love because they are God's beloved children imitating their Father.

Father appears here not as a divine title but as a parental role being called to account — Paul directs fathers specifically not to provoke or crush their children, rebalancing patriarchal authority with tenderness.

Father is used here in a human sense — Mordecai's parental love for Esther is the closest thing to a father's care she has, foreshadowing the protective, providential love that watches over her throughout the story.

Father-in-law appears here as a relational term establishing Jethro's familial authority over Moses — the kind of trusted relationship that makes his coming critique both credible and receivable.

The term Father refers here to Pharaoh — whose daughter recognizes the Hebrew infant as a child condemned by her own father's edict, yet chooses compassion over compliance.

Father appears here in the difficult context of a man giving his daughter into service — the passage assumes this paternal authority while simultaneously constructing legal protections that limit how it can be abused.

The father here is the woman's earthly father, who retains final authority over whether the seducer may marry his daughter — even as God's law requires the man to pay the bride-price regardless of the father's decision.