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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Fathers

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

549exact KJV occurrences 490Old Testament 59New Testament 43books containing the word 8mapped Strong's IDs 548occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 15:15

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

1 John 2:14

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where fathers appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

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GreekG3971
πατρῷος

patrōios · pat-ro'-os

3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

paternal, i.e. hereditary

Strong's KJV usage: :--of fathers.

Strong's first: Acts 22:3Strong's last: Acts 28:17

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GreekG3964
πατραλῴας

patralṓias · pat-ral-o'-as

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a parricide

Strong's KJV usage: :--murderer of fathers.

Strong's first: 1 Timothy 1:9Strong's last: 1 Timothy 1:9

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GreekG3970
πατροπαράδοτος

patroparádotos · pat-rop-ar-ad'-ot-os

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

traditionary

Strong's KJV usage: :--received by tradition from fathers.

Strong's first: 1 Peter 1:18Strong's last: 1 Peter 1:18

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HebrewH539
אָמַן

ʼâman · aw-man'

1 times translated as this KJV form108 total Strong's occurrences

v

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.

Strong's first: Isaiah 49:23Strong's last: Isaiah 49:23

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Acts 3:13
G3962

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.

Acts 3:22
G3962

For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

Acts 3:25
G3962

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Acts 5:30
G3962

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

Acts 7:2
G3962

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Acts 7:11
G3962

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Acts 7:12
G3962

But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

Acts 7:15
G3962

So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

Acts 7:19
G3962

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

Acts 7:32
G3962

Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.

Acts 7:38
G3962

This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

Acts 7:39
G3962

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Acts 7:44
G3962

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

Acts 7:45
G3962

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Acts 7:45
G3962

Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Acts 7:51
G3962

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Acts 7:52
G3962

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Acts 13:17
G3962

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

Acts 13:32
G3962

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

Acts 13:36
G3962

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

Acts 15:10
G3962

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Acts 22:1
G3962

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.

Acts 22:3
G3971

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

Acts 22:14
G3962

And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.

Acts 24:14
G3971

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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