'Households' in the Bible

"Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.'

When you gather in the crop, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh, and the rest will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children."

And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them.

These are the heads of their fathers' households: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of Reuben.

Now Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' households of Levi according to their clans.

then you will say, 'It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.'" The people bowed down low to the ground,

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah's men, and all their goods.

Deacons must be husbands of one wife and good managers of their children and their own households.

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.