'Fathers' in the Bible

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.

All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You,Nor have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

I will [solemnly] remember the deeds of the Lord;Yes, I will [wholeheartedly] remember Your wonders of old.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.