'Father' in the Bible

And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim and the Lehabim and the Naphtuhim

And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth,

And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.

And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;

And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,

And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,

And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel.

And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.

And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.

And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.

And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad,

And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed,

And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah,

And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah,

And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum,

And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama.

And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron.

And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.

And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.

And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb.

The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim,

Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader.

And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites.

And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath; and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.

And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

And his wife, a woman of the tribe of Judah, became the mother of Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.

And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;

Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua;

And Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the father of Uzzi,

And Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth;

Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,

And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,

And Ahimaaz was the father of Azariah, and Azariah was the father of Johanan,

And Johanan was the father of Azariah, (he was priest in the house which Solomon put up in Jerusalem:)

And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,

And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum,

And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah,

And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak;

The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;

(And Gilead took a wife, whose name was Maacah, and his sister's name was Hammoleketh;) and the name of his brother was Zelophehad, who was the father of daughters.

And for a long time Ephraim their father went on weeping for them, and his brothers came to give him comfort.

After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister.

And Benjamin was the father of Bela his oldest son, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud,

And Naaman and Ahijah and Gera; and Iglaam was the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

And Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of the Moabites after driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives;

And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.

And Hushim became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.

And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

And Ner was the father of Abner, and Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.

And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

And Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza;

And Moza was the father of Binea: Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son;

And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;

Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

And Ner was the father of Kish; and Kish was the father of Saul; and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.

And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

And Ahaz was the father of Jarah; and Jarah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza.

And Moza was the father of Binea; and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.

I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you;

And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.

But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it?

He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.

But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests.

So they were put into their different groups, to take their places in the house of the Lord, in agreement with the rules made by Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord.

All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.

And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family of their father, for they were able men.

And Hosah, a son of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the oldest, his father made him chief);

Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.

And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.

So Solomon was put on the seat of the Lord as king in place of his father David, and everything went well for him; and all Israel was under his authority.