Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
6 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “father” →
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.