'Father's' in the Bible

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

The Lord said to Abram:Go out from your land,your relatives,and your father’s houseto the land that I will show you.

Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.”

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

So when God had me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me: ‘He’s my brother.’”

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’—He will send His angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

but will go to my father’s household and to my family to take a wife for my son.’

He said to me, ‘The Lord before whom I have walked will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will take a wife for my son from my family and from my father’s household.

The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s slaves had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father!”

and if I return safely to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

He told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.”

He said to them, “I can see from your father’s face that his attitude toward me is not the same, but the God of my father has been with me.

God has taken away your father’s herds and given them to me.

Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s household?

When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.Jacob had 12 sons:

These are the family records of Jacob.At 17 years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

His brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh, telling him: My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food for their dependents.

Then Joseph took them from his father’s knees and bowed with his face to the ground.

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it was a mistake and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel,because you got into your father’s bedand you defiled it—he got into my bed.

Judah, your brothers will praise you.Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies;your father’s sons will bow down to you.

Then Joseph, leaning over his father’s face, wept and kissed him.

along with all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their sheep, and their cattle were left in the land of Goshen.

Joseph and his father’s household remained in Egypt. Joseph lived 110 years.