Father
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈfɑːðər/
- So you've got God the Father, the creator.
- God the Father
- loving Father
- divine Father
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Watch on YouTubeSo if if God is Jesus's father, yeah, then who is Joseph?
- So if if God is Jesus's father, yeah, then who is Joseph?
- Christ was begotten by the Father, but not made by him.
- And then in that I felt like my father God was like
- Here I go, our Father up in heaven.
- So the master is God the Father, and there are servants, OK?
- I said, OK, so Father's God, Son is Jesus.
- Same thing with the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son, right?
- Is God all by himself where there is no, you know, Father, Son and Holy Spirit?
- Branches that do produce fruit are pruned by the Father so that they'll produce more fruit.
- It doesn't see a place for itself in the Father and the Son, right?
- So Yahweh becomes the Father, Jesus is the Son and right.
Examples
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Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
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Father, we pray, Father God, that we have a smooth show.
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Lord, deliver us, Father, deliver us from evil.
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Here I go, our Father up in heaven.
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"No one comes to the Father except by me," he remembered suddenly.
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And with a loud voice, he cried, "Father, Father!
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And so watch over these innocent children we pray in the name of the father and the son, amen.
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Christ was begotten by the Father, but not made by him.
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Dear heavenly Father.
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"But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins."
Synonyms
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5.4
The first person of the Trinity seen as creator and parent of all
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7.9
A name for God thought of as a father who created and cares for people
Compounds
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7.0
A person who helped create the United States by writing the Constitution in 1787
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3.9
A man who gives care and guidance like a father to someone who is not his child
- Formal
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9.9
A Christian writer from the early centuries whose writings help shape church teaching
- Formal
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9.9
A leading early Christian writer whose teachings helped form church beliefs
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8.2
English people who sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620 and started a settlement in New England
- Formal
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9.9
An early church writer who has a link to an Apostle or their close students and writes about the faith
Surface Forms
Etymology
Father comes from a very old word meaning 'male parent', the same root as Latin pater and Spanish 'padre'. So calling God Father is like calling him a first parent or source and protector.