25 occurrences

'Father in law' in the Bible

And it was told to Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man to whom these [belong] I have conceived." And she said, "Now discern to whom these [belong]: the seal and cord and the staff."

Verse ConceptsSealsConceptionCordsWho Is The One?

And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west [of] the desert, and he came to 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

And Moses went, and he returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and he said to him, "Please let me go, and let me return to my brothers who [are] in Egypt, and let me see whether they [are] yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

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

Verse ConceptsOccupationsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away,

Verse ConceptsLeaving Parents For Spouse

And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there [at] the mountain of God.

Verse ConceptsEncampmentsCamp, Of IsraelIsrael In The WildernessMeeting People

And he said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, [am] coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her."

Verse ConceptsMeeting PeopleTelling Of Movements

And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed, and he kissed him, and {they each asked about the other's welfare}, and they came into the tent.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingBowingGreetingsKissingKissesSpoken Greetings

And Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the hardship that had found them on the way, and [how] Yahweh delivered them.

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

And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsBurnt offeringSacrifice, In OtEating Before God

And the father-in-law of Moses saw all that he was doing for the people, and he said, "What [is] this thing that you [are] doing for the people? Why [are] you sitting alone and all the people [are] standing by you 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 to me to seek God.

And the father-in-law of Moses said to him, "The thing that you are doing is not good.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsDoing The Right Thing

And Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and he did all that he had said.

Verse ConceptsObeying PeopleTrust In Relationshipsinvesting

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

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landDispensations

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, "We [are] setting out to the place that Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you'; go with us, and we will {treat you well} because {Yahweh promised} good concerning Israel."

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

The descendants of Hobab [the] Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the descendants of Judah from the city of palms [into] the wilderness of Judah, which [is] in [the] Negev [near] Arad. And they went and settled with the people.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsBrothers in law

And Heber the Kenite [was] separated from [the other] Kenites, [that is], from the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses. And {he was encamped} at Elon-bezaanannim, which [is] near Kedesh.

Verse ConceptsBrothersTentsFathers In LawsOaksBrothers in law

His father-in-law, the young woman's father, urged him to stay with him three days; and they ate and drank, and they spent the night there.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysFathers In Laws

The man got up to go, but his father-in-law urged him, and he returned and spent the night there.

Verse ConceptsPeople Who Delayed

And the man got up to go--he, his concubine, and his servant--but his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, said to him, "Please, the day has worn on to evening; please, spend the night, the day has drawn to a close. Spend the night here and {enjoy yourself}. You can rise early tomorrow for your journey and {go to your home}."

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, [was] pregnant and [about] to give birth. When she heard the news concerning the capture of the ark of God and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she {went into labor} and gave birth, because her labor pains came upon her.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

She called the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and concerning her father-in-law and husband.

Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt NamesTragedy

and brought [him] to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest 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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