25 occurrences

'Father in law' in the Bible

And it was told to Tamar, saying, Behold, your father-in-law goes up to Timnah to shear his sheep.

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, I am with child by the man whose things these are. And she said, Please observe. Whose things are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff?

Verse ConceptsSealsConceptionCordsWho Is The One?

And Moses kept the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back side 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 returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsReturning to their landLiving OnBrothers in lawgirlfriends

When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt,

Verse ConceptsOccupationsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

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

Verse ConceptsLeaving Parents For Spouse

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he camped at the mount of God.

Verse ConceptsEncampmentsCamp, Of IsraelIsrael In The WildernessMeeting People

And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come 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 bowed down to him, and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare. And they came into the tent.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingBowingGreetingsKissingKissesSpoken Greetings

And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how Jehovah delivered them.

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

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

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsBurnt offeringSacrifice, In OtEating Before God

And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing which you do to the people? Why do you sit alone by yourself, and all the people stand by you from morning to 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 inquire of God.

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do is not good.

Verse ConceptsBad SituationsDoing The Right Thing

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

Verse ConceptsObeying PeopleTrust In Relationshipsinvesting

And Moses let his father-in-law depart. And he went his way into his own land.

Verse ConceptsReturning to their landDispensations

And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: We are going to the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it to you. Come with us, and we will do you good. For Jehovah has spoken good concerning Israel.

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

And the sons of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the sons of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad. And they went and lived among the people.

Verse ConceptsFathers In LawsBrothers in law

And Heber the Kenite, of the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites and pitched his tent toward the plain of Zaanaim, near Kedesh.

Verse ConceptsBrothersTentsFathers In LawsOaksBrothers in law

And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him. And he stayed with him three days. So they ate and drank and stayed there.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysFathers In Laws

And when the man rose up to leave, his father-in-law urged him, and he stayed there again.

Verse ConceptsPeople Who Delayed

And when the man rose up to leave, he and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening. Please stay all night. Behold, the day grows to an end. Stay here so that your heart may be merry. And tomorrow go early on your way, so that you may go to your tent.

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, ready to be delivered. And when she heard the report that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God had been taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt NamesTragedy

And they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the 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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