Topic
Father's House, Fathers' House
32 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 12:1ISBE
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- Genesis 31:14ISBE
And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
- Genesis 31:30ISBE
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
- Genesis 38:11ISBE
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.
- Genesis 41:51ISBE
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
- Genesis 46:31ISBE
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
- Exodus 6:14ISBE
¶ These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
- Exodus 12:3ISBE
¶ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
- Numbers 1:18ISBE
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their…
- Numbers 1:20ISBE
And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to…
- Numbers 3:20ISBE
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
- Numbers 7:2ISBE
That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
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- Numbers 17:1–3 ISBE
- Numbers 17:2 ISBE
- Numbers 31:26 ISBE
- Numbers 32:28 ISBE
- Numbers 36:1 ISBE
- Joshua 22:14 ISBE
- 1 Samuel 18:2 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 9:34 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 24:6 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 24:31 ISBE
- Ezra 2:59 ISBE
- Nehemiah 10:34 ISBE
- Psalms 11:4 ISBE
- Psalms 33:13 ISBE
- Isaiah 63:15 ISBE
- Matthew 6:9 ISBE
- Luke 16:27 ISBE
- John 2:16 ISBE
- John 14:2 ISBE
- Acts 7:20 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 34 references
(beth 'abh, beth 'abhoth): Father's house in the Old Testament is
(1) a dwelling, the family home (Ge 12:1; 31:14,30; 38:11; 1Sa 18:2);
(2) a family or household (Ge 41:51; 46:31; Ex 12:3, the Revised Version (British and American) "fathers' houses");
(3) the group of households, of several of which the "family' or "clan" was constituted, aggregations of which formed the "tribe," generally "fathers' houses" (Nu 1:18,20; 17:2; Ezr 2:59; Ne 10:34, etc.);
(4)the "family" (clan), mishpachah, "fathers' houses" (Ex 6:14 f; Nu 3:20);
(5) the tribe, "fathers' house," "houses" (Nu 7:2; 17:1-3, etc.).
In the New Testament "father's house" (oikos tou patros) occurs in the sense of dwelling, house (Lu 16:27; compare 16:4). our Lord also uses the phrase
(1) of the earthly temple-dwelling of God at Jerusalem (Joh 2:16, "Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise"; compare Ps 11:4; Isa 63:15);
(2) of heaven as the abode of God and His children (Joh 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions," the Revised Version, margin "abiding places," oikia "house," "dwelling," also household, family; compare Ps 33:13; Isa 63:15; Mt 6:9). The phrase occurs also (Ac 7:20) of Moses, "nourished .... in his father's house" (oikos).
Revised Version has "father's hquse" for "principal household" (1Ch 24:6), "heads of the fathers' houses" for "chief fathers" (Nu 31:26; 32:28; 36:1; 1Ch 9:34, etc.); "one prince of a father's house," for "each of" (Jos 22:14); "the heads of the fathers' (houses)" for "the chief of the fathers," and "the fathers' houses of the chief," for "the principal fathers" (1Ch 24:31).
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.