'Households' in the Bible

If you are honest, let one of you be confined to the guardhouse, while the rest of you go and take grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

The man who is the lord of the country said to us, ‘This is how I will know if you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.

Get your father and your families, and come back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you can eat from the richness of the land.’

At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.”

Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ households, one animal per household.

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions.

and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

and 1,760 of their relatives, the heads of households. They were capable men employed in the ministry of God’s temple.

Then the leaders of the households, the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of the king’s work gave willingly.

Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently.

Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.