'Father's' in the Bible

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers who were outside.

Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.

Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father's household to the land that I will show you.

What's more, she is indeed my sister, my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter. She became my wife.

When God made me wander from my father's house, I told her, 'This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'"

"The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, 'To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

"Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

He answered, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father's family.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father's presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

When Esau heard his father's words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!"

and I return safely to my father's home, then the Lord will become my God.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was tending them.

Jacob heard that Laban's sons were complaining, "Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father's expense!"

There he said to them, "I can tell that your father's attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.

In this way God has snatched away your father's livestock and given them to me.

Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, "Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father's house?

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father's house. Yet why did you steal my gods?"

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked because he wanted Jacob's daughter Dinah badly. (Now he was more important than anyone in his father's household.)

While Israel was living in that land, Reuben had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

When his brothers had gone to graze their father's flocks near Shechem,

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up." For he thought, "I don't want him to die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's house."

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's pain."

To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father's journey.

Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.

When Joseph saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, it displeased him. So he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it -- he got on my couch!

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father's sons will bow down before you.

Then Joseph hugged his father's face. He wept over him and kissed him.

all Joseph's household, his brothers, and his father's household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father's family. Joseph lived 110 years.