24 occurrences

'Father in law' in the Bible

And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?

Verse ConceptsSealsConceptionCordsWho Is The One?

Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Verse ConceptsFathers, Responsibilities OfAppearances Of God In OtDesertsMoses, Significance OfShepherds, As OccupationsAngels, Ot AppearancesFathers In LawsIsrael In The WildernessWest SidesPasturing The FlockThose Who Kept Stock

And Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go back now to my relations in Egypt and see if they are still living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

Verse ConceptsLeaving Parents For Spouse

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

Verse ConceptsEncampmentsCamp, Of IsraelIsrael In The WildernessMeeting People

And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.

Verse ConceptsMeeting PeopleTelling Of Movements

And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingBowingGreetingsKissingKissesSpoken Greetings

And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodSuffering, HardshipHard TasksTelling Of GodWhy God Did Things

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsBurnt offeringSacrifice, In OtEating Before God

And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?

Verse ConceptsActing AloneFrom Morning Till EveningWhat Do You Do?

And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsDoing The Right Thing

So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.

Verse ConceptsObeying PeopleTrust In Relationshipsinvesting

And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landDispensations

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtSaints, As PilgrimsFathers In LawsGod Doing GoodBrothers in law

Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsBrothers in law

And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysFathers In Laws

And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.

Verse ConceptsPeople Who Delayed

And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt NamesTragedy

They took him first to Annas, because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was the high priest that year.

Verse ConceptsFathers, Responsibilities OfFathers In LawsRivers

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πατήρ 
Pater 
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