( , beth ‘abh, , beth ‘abhoth): Father’s house in the Old Testament is (1) a dwelling, the family home (Gen 12:1; Gen 31:14, Gen 31:30; Gen 38:11; 1Sa 18:2); (2) a family or household (Gen 41:51; Gen 46:31; Exo 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 (Num 1:18, Num 1:20; Num 17:2; Ezr 2:59; Neh 10:34, etc.); (4)the family (clan), mishpahah, fathers’ houses (Exo 6:14 f; Num 3:20); (5) The tribe, fathers’ house, houses (Num 7:2; Num 17:1-3, etc.).<\/p>\n
In the New Testament father’s house ( , okos tou patros) occurs in the sense of dwelling, house (Luk 16:27; compare Luk 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 Psa 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, oika house, dwelling, also household, family; compare Psa 33:13; Isa 63:15; Mat 6:9). The phrase occurs also (Act 7:20) of Moses, nourished … in his father’s house (oikos).<\/p>\n
Revised Version has father’s hquse for principal household (1Ch 24:6), heads of the fathers’ houses for chief fathers (Num 31:26; Num 32:28; Num 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).<\/p>\n
Father’s House, Fathers’ House ( , beth ‘abh, , beth ‘abhoth): Father’s house in the Old Testament is (1) a dwelling, the family home (Gen 12:1; Gen 31:14, Gen 31:30; Gen 38:11; 1Sa 18:2); (2) a family or household (Gen 41:51; Gen 46:31; Exo 12:3, the Revised Version (British and American) fathers’ houses); (3) The … Continue reading “Father’s House, Fathers’ House”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}