~ a father to ~ 01_GEN_45_08  So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God, and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. #, 18_JOB_29_16  I  [was] a father to the poor, and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. #, 23_ISA_22_21  And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. #, 24_JER_31_09  They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them, I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn. #,