'Family' in the Bible
but that you will go to my land and to my family, and take a wife for my son, for Isaac."
Yahweh, the God of heaven who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'to your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
But you shall go to the house of my father, and to my family, and you shall take a wife for my son.'
And he said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I have walked, shall send his angel with you and will make your journey successful. And you shall take a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father.
Then you shall be released from my oath, when you come to my family. And if they will not give [a woman] to you, then you will be released from my oath.'
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names according to their family records. The firstborn of Ishmael [was] Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you {wherever I turned}. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?"
And Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you."
Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.'
Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take for ourselves your daughters, and we will live with you and become one family.
Only on this [condition] will they give consent to us, to live with us [and] to become one family--when every male among us [is] circumcised as they are circumcised.
And they said, "The man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?' And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, 'Bring down your brother'?"
Bible Theasaurus
- Brotherhood (11 instances)
- Category (1 instance)
- Class (20 instances)
- Family (608 instances)
- Fellowship (147 instances)
- Folk (8 instances)
- Fraternity (1 instance)
- Home (454 instances)
- Horde (14 instances)
- House (2166 instances)
- Household (360 instances)
- Kin (16 instances)
- Kind (424 instances)
- Kinsfolk (8 instances)
- Mob (15 instances)
- Posterity (55 instances)
- Related (94 instances)
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- Abraham, Family And Descendants
- Angels Going At God's Bidding
- Authority Within The Family, Kinds Of
- Being A Part Of The Family Of God
- Christ's Earthly Family
- Christ's True Family
- Death Of A Family Member
- Family
- Family And Friends