Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
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Father
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Revelation 3:21
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
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169 occurrences in 140 verses.
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This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Genesis
169140 verses
Exodus
2322 verses
Leviticus
109 verses
Numbers
2219 verses
Deuteronomy
1414 verses
Joshua
1312 verses
Judges
3834 verses
Ruth
32 verses
1 Samuel
3934 verses
2 Samuel
1715 verses
1 Kings
6052 verses
2 Kings
3025 verses
1 Chronicles
5543 verses
2 Chronicles
5447 verses
Esther
21 verses
Job
66 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Proverbs
1818 verses
Isaiah
1312 verses
Jeremiah
1414 verses
Ezekiel
109 verses
Daniel
64 verses
Amos
11 verses
Micah
11 verses
Zechariah
21 verses
Malachi
32 verses
Matthew
6054 verses
Mark
1918 verses
Luke
4336 verses
John
126104 verses
Acts
1010 verses
Romans
1211 verses
1 Corinthians
33 verses
2 Corinthians
54 verses
Galatians
55 verses
Ephesians
1010 verses
Philippians
44 verses
Colossians
66 verses
1 Thessalonians
65 verses
2 Thessalonians
33 verses
1 Timothy
22 verses
2 Timothy
11 verses
Titus
11 verses
Philemon
11 verses
Hebrews
55 verses
James
44 verses
1 Peter
33 verses
2 Peter
11 verses
1 John
1312 verses
2 John
43 verses
Jude
11 verses
Revelation
44 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
אָב
ʼâb · awb
593 times translated as this KJV form1,212 total Strong's occurrences
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Strong's KJV usage: chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 2:24Strong's last: Malachi 2:10
Open full H1 profile →πατήρ
patḗr · pat-ayr'
348 times translated as this KJV form453 total Strong's occurrences
a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote)
Strong's KJV usage: :--father, parent.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 2:22Strong's last: Revelation 3:21
Open full G3962 profile →אַב
ʼab · ab
6 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: father.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 5:2Strong's last: Daniel 5:18
Open full H2 profile →ἀπάτωρ
apátōr · ap-at'-ore
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
fatherless, i.e. of unrecorded paternity
Strong's KJV usage: :--without father.
Strong's first: Hebrews 7:3Strong's last: Hebrews 7:3
Open full G540 profile →אָמַן
ʼâman · aw-man'
1 times translated as this KJV form108 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;
Strong's KJV usage: hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 11:12Strong's last: Numbers 11:12
Open full H539 profile →בֵּן
bên · bane
1 times translated as this KJV form4,878 total Strong's occurrences
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 24:10Strong's last: Leviticus 24:10
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126 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
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Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
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Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
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Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
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Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
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As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
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No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
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My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
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I and my Father are one.
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Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
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Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
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If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
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But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
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Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
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If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
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Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
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Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
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For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
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And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
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Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
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Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
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Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
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Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
English meaning and historical usage.
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father
F'ATHER, noun [Latin pater. The primary sense is obvious.]
1. He who begets a child; in Latin genitor or generator.
The father of a fool hath no joy. Proverbs 17:21.
2. The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family. Adam was the father of the human race. Abraham was the father of the Israelites.
3. The appellation of an old man, and a term of respect.
The king of Israel said to Elisha, my father shall I smite them? 2 Kings 6:21.
The servants of Naaman call him father Elderly men are called fathers; as the fathers of a town or city. In the church, men venerable for age, learning and piety are called fathers, or reverend fathers.
4. The grandfather or more remote ancestor. Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar, though he was his grandfather. Daniel 5:2.
5. One who feeds and supports or exercises paternal care over another. God is called the father of the fatherless.
Psalms 118:1.
6. He who creates, invents, makes or composes any thing; the author, former or contriver; a founder, director or instructor. God as creator is the father of all men. John 8:16. Jabal was the father of such as dwell in tents; and Jubal of musicians. Genesis 4:20. God is the father of spirits and of lights. Homer is considered as the father of epic poetry. Washington, as a defender and an affectionate and wise counselor, is called the father of his country. And see 1 Chronicles 2:51. 1 Chronicles 4:14. 1 Chr 9:35. Satan is called the father of lies; he introduced sin, and instigates men to sin. John 8:16. Abraham is called the father of believers. He was an early believer, and a pattern of faith and obedience. Romans 4:1.
7. Fathers, in the plural, ancestors.
David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings 2:12.
8. A father in law. So Heli is called the father of Joseph. Luke 3:8.
9. The appellation of the first person in the adorable Trinity.
Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19.
10. The title given to dignitaries of the church, superiors of convents, and to popish confessors.
11. The appellation of the ecclesiastical writers of the first centuries, as Polycarp, Jerome, etc.
12. The title of a senator in ancient Rome; as conscript fathers.
Adoptive father he who adopts the children of another, and acknowledges them as his own.
Natural father the father of illegitimate children.
Putative father one who is only reputed to be the father; the supposed father
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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