'Father' in the Bible

While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, "My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!" Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers.

He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

Jehu ordered his officer Bidkar, "Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the Lord pronounced this judgment on him,

Now Elisha had a terminal illness. King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. He wept before him and said, "My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!"

Jehoahaz's son Jehoash took back from Ben Hadad son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from his father Jehoahaz in war. Joash defeated him three times and recovered the Israelite cities.

He did what the Lord approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.

When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah's place.

He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.

He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.

Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'"

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done.

He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.