'Father' in the Bible

While he was with them, he declared, "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me.

He told them, "You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek.

The father of Publius lay sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and after praying, placed his hands on him and healed him.