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The meaning of Father's House, Fathers' House in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

(beth 'abh, beth 'abhoth): Father's house in the Old Testament is (1) a dwelling, the family home (Genesis 12:1; Genesis 31:14, Genesis 31:30; Genesis 38:11; I Samuel 18:2); (2) a family or household (Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:31; Exodus 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" (Numbers 1:18, Numbers 1:20 ff.; Numbers 17:2; Ezra 2:59; Nehemiah 10:34, etc.); (4)the "family" (clan), mishpachah, "fathers' houses" (Exodus 6:14 f.; Numbers 3:20 ff.); (5) the tribe, "fathers' house," "houses" (Numbers 7:2; Numbers 17:1-3, etc.).

In the New Testament "father's house" (oikos tou patros) occurs in the sense of dwelling, house (Luke 16:27; compare Luke 16:4). our Lord also uses the phrase (1) of the earthly temple-dwelling of God at Jerusalem (John 2:16, "Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise"; compare Psalms 11:4; Isaiah 63:15); (2) of heaven as the abode of God and His children (John 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions," the Revised Version, margin "abiding places," oikia "house," "dwelling," also household, family; compare Psalms 33:13; Isaiah 63:15; Matthew 6:9). The phrase occurs also (Acts 7:20) of Moses, "nourished .... in his father's house" (oikos).

Revised Version has "father's hquse" for "principal household" (I Chronicles 24:6), "heads of the fathers' houses" for "chief fathers" (Numbers 31:26; Numbers 32:28; Numbers 36:1; I Chronicles 9:34, etc.); "one prince of a father's house," for "each of" (Joshua 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" (I Chronicles 24:31).

W. L. Walker


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