'Family' in the Bible
So he showed them the entrance to the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go free.
He said to Him, “O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage outside the family, and he brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children.
Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.
So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, valiant men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, search the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Then from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out.
They said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
The sons of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Brotherhood (11 instances)
- Category (1 instance)
- Class (20 instances)
- Family (608 instances)
- Fellowship (147 instances)
- Folk (8 instances)
- Fraternity (1 instance)
- Home (454 instances)
- Horde (14 instances)
- House (2166 instances)
- Household (360 instances)
- Kin (16 instances)
- Kind (424 instances)
- Kinsfolk (8 instances)
- Mob (15 instances)
- Posterity (55 instances)
- Related (94 instances)
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- Abraham, Family And Descendants
- Authority Within The Family, Kinds Of
- Being A Part Of The Family Of God
- Christ's Earthly Family
- Christ's True Family
- Clans
- Death Of A Family Member
- Family
- Family And Friends