25 occurrences

'Father in law' in the Bible

And it was told Tamar saying, - Lo! thy father-in-law is going up towards Timnah, to the shearing of his sheep.

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

When, she, was about to be brought forth, then, she herself, sent unto her father-in-law saying, By the man to whom these belong, have I, conceived! And she said - Examine, I pray thee, to whom belong the signet-ring, and the guard, and the staff - these!

Verse ConceptsSealsConceptionCordsWho Is The One?

Now, Moses, was shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law priest of Midian, - so he led forth the flock behind the desert, and came in unto the mountain of God to Horeb.

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

So Moses went and returned unto Jethro his father-in-law and said to him - Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren who are in Egypt, that I my see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses: Go and prosper.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

And Jethro, priest of Midian, father-in-law of Moses, heard all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, - in that Yahweh had brought forth Israel out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

So Jethro, Moses father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses wife, - after she had been sent home;

Verse ConceptsLeaving Parents For Spouse

And Jethro, Moses father-in-law, came in, with his two sons and his wife, unto Moses, - into the desert where, he, was encamping, the mountain of God;

Verse ConceptsEncampmentsCamp, Of IsraelIsrael In The WildernessMeeting People

and said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law, Jethro, am coming in unto thee, - and thy wife, and her two sons, with her.

Verse ConceptsMeeting PeopleTelling Of Movements

So Moses went forth to meet his father-in-law, and bowed himself down to him and kissed him, and they asked each other of their welfare, - and came into the tent.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingBowingGreetingsKissingKissesSpoken Greetings

Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law, all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians, for Israel's sake, - all the hardship which had befallen them by the way, and how Yahweh had delivered them.

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

Then took Jethro father-in-law of Moses, an ascending-offering and sacrifices to God, - and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came in to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsBurnt offeringSacrifice, In OtEating Before God

And when Moses father-in-law saw all that he, was doing for the people, he said - What is this thing which, thou, art doing for the people? Wherefore art, thou, sitting alone, with all the people, stationed by thee, from morning until evening?

Verse ConceptsActing AloneFrom Morning Till EveningWhat Do You Do?

And Moses said to his father-in-law, - Because the people come in unto me to seek God:

Then said Moses' father-in-law unto him, - Not good, is the thing that thou art doing.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsDoing The Right Thing

So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said;

Verse ConceptsObeying PeopleTrust In Relationshipsinvesting

And Moses sent forth his father-in-law, - and he went his way by himself unto his own land.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landDispensations

Then said Moses to Hobab, son of Raguel the Midianite, father-in-law of Moses: Setting forward, are we unto the place of which Yahweh hath said, The same, will I give unto you, - Oh come with us and we will do thee good, for, Yahweh, hath spoken good, concerning Israel.

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

Now, the sons of the Kenite, father-in-law of Moses, had come up from the city of palm-trees, with the sons of Judah, into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad, - so they went and dwelt with the people.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsBrothers in law

Now, Heber the Kenite, had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the sons of Hobab, father-in-law of Moses, - and moved his tent as far as the oak of Zaanaim, which is near Kadesh.

Verse ConceptsBrothersTentsFathers In LawsOaksBrothers in law

And his father-in-law, the father of the damsel, constrained him, and he abode with him three days, - and they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysFathers In Laws

And, when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, so he turned back and tarried the night there.

Verse ConceptsPeople Who Delayed

And, when the man rose up to go - he and his concubine and his young man, - his father-in-law, the father of the damsel, said to him, Come now, see! the day hath sunk down towards evening, come now! tarry the night; lo! the day goeth down, tarry the night here, and let thy heart be glad, so shall ye rise early to-morrow for your journey, and thou shalt go thy way to thine own home.

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

Now, his daughter-in-law, wife of Phinehas, was with child, ready to give birth, and, when she heard the tidings, as to the taking of the ark of God, and the death of her father-in-law, and her husband, she bowed herself and gave birth, for her pains had seized her.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

And she called the boy I-chabod! saying, Exiled is the glory from Israel, - In regard to the taking of the ark of God, and to her father-in-law, and to her husband.

Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt NamesTragedy

and led him unto Annas, first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the High-priest of that year.

Verse ConceptsFathers, Responsibilities OfFathers In LawsRivers

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Father-In-Law (29 instances)

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πατήρ 
Pater 
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