Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
5 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “father” →
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
