Concordance

“Father” in the Bible

1451 verses contain “father” (including word forms) in the Berean Standard Bible — the first 150 are listed below.

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Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 4:18 Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.
Genesis 4:20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
Genesis 4:21 And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
Genesis 5:4 And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:6 When Seth was 105 years old, he became the father of Enosh.
Genesis 5:7 And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:9 When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan.
Genesis 5:10 And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:12 When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5:13 And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:15 When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he became the father of Jared.
Genesis 5:16 And after he had become the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:18 When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:19 And after he had become the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:21 When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22 And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:25 When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5:26 And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:30 And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23 …s their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s…
Genesis 10:8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Genesis 10:13 Mizraim was the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
Genesis 10:15 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Genesis 10:24 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.
Genesis 10:26 And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Genesis 11:10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
Genesis 11:11 And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11:13 And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11:15 And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11:17 And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11:19 And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11:21 And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11:23 And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11:25 And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
Genesis 11:28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Genesis 11:29 …as named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and…
Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 15:15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
Genesis 17:4 “As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:20 …e him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great…
Genesis 19:31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Genesis 19:32 Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Genesis 19:33 So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 19:34 … older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we…
Genesis 19:35 So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 19:36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
Genesis 19:37 The older daughter gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
Genesis 19:38 The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Genesis 20:12 Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
Genesis 20:13 So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 22:7 Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt…
Genesis 22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
Genesis 22:23 And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Genesis 24:7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give…
Genesis 24:23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
Genesis 24:38 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
Genesis 24:40 … you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s…
Genesis 25:3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.
Genesis 25:19 This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
Genesis 26:3 …offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father…
Genesis 26:15 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Genesis 26:18 …aac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same…
Genesis 26:24 …ht the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the…
Genesis 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
Genesis 27:9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
Genesis 27:10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
Genesis 27:12 What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Genesis 27:14 So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
Genesis 27:18 So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
Genesis 27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:22 So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Genesis 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
Genesis 27:30 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
Genesis 27:31 He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:32 But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
Genesis 27:34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
Genesis 27:38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
Genesis 27:39 His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
Genesis 27:41 …sau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I…
Genesis 28:2 “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
Genesis 28:7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Genesis 28:8 And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Genesis 28:13 …RD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now…
Genesis 28:21 so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
Genesis 29:9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Genesis 29:12 He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.
Genesis 31:1 Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
Genesis 31:3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
Genesis 31:5 and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:6 You know that I have served your father with all my strength.
Genesis 31:9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
Genesis 31:14 And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
Genesis 31:16 Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
Genesis 31:18 and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
Genesis 31:19 Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Genesis 31:29 I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Genesis 31:30 Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31:35 Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
Genesis 31:42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my…
Genesis 31:53 May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Genesis 32:9 Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you…
Genesis 33:19 And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
Genesis 34:4 So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
Genesis 34:6 Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
Genesis 34:11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
Genesis 34:13 But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
Genesis 34:19 The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
Genesis 35:18 And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:22 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 twelve sons:
Genesis 35:27 Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Genesis 36:9 This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.
Genesis 36:24 These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
Genesis 36:43 Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.
Genesis 37:1 Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:2 …he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about…
Genesis 37:4 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:10 He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow…
Genesis 37:11 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
Genesis 37:12 Some time later, Joseph’s brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
Genesis 37:22 … could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his…
Genesis 37:32 They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
Genesis 37:33 His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
Genesis 37:35 All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
Genesis 38:11 …said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar…
Genesis 38:13 When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
Genesis 38:25 As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them.…
Genesis 41:51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
Genesis 42:13 But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
Genesis 42:29 When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
Genesis 42:32 We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
Genesis 42:35 As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.
Genesis 42:36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
Genesis 42:37 Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him.”
Genesis 43:2 So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
Genesis 43:7 …ioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know…
Genesis 43:8 And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.

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