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Sense 1: father
= direct male progenitor; ► who normally provides protection, care, instruction, and discipline; ≈ is usually regarded with respect and associated with wisdom, security, and comfort
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-01Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 555 (555 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 2: grandfather, ancestor
= indirect male progenitor
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-02Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 385 (385 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 3: father > founder
= a person ► who is the founder of a village, town, or region, and usually the ancestor of most of its inhabitants
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-03Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 33 (33 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 4: the first person to ...
= a person ► who is the first to be engaged in a certain activity or pattern of behavior
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-04Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 2 (2 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 5: father > creator
= a person, ◄ compared to a father, ► who is the originator of a certain process; ≈ said about God only
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-05Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 4 (4 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 6: adviser
= a person, ◄ compared to a father, ► who provides advice to someone in authority
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-06Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 3 (3 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 7: father, protector, helper
= a person, ◄ compared to a father, ► who provides care for the people under his authority; ≈ often extended to refer to God
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-07Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 16 (16 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 8: father, place of security, place of comfort
= a location, ◄ compared to a father, ≈ regarded as a source of security and comfort
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-08Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 9: father's house = family
= a group of people to which one traces one's ancestry; ◄ smallest unit within family group
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-09Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 145 (145 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 10: ancestral tribe
= a group of people to which one traces one's ancestry; ◄ largest unit within family group
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-10Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 9 (9 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 11: ancestry
= a group of people to which one traces one's ancestry
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-11Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 50 (50 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 12: family possessions, patrimony
= possessions belonging to a group of people that share a common ancestry
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-12Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 1 (1 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON
Sense 13: father (as title)
literally: father; hence: = a way of addressing a male person that one regards as one's superior because of his age, status, authority, etc.
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Sense ID SDBC-HEB-SENSE-000003-13Source ubs_hebrew_dictionary Licence CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source-linked references 7 (7 verse links; 0 chapter-only title records) Source-exact record View JSON No exact site Strong's mapping is available for this lemma. Use these links to inspect lexical identity and occurrences. Domain membership identifies related vocabulary to investigate; it does not assign a passage meaning.
Related words and biblical concepts Reviewed concept, LXX, and theological relationships are not included in this MVP. No candidate relationship is presented as established fact.
Advanced record identity Lemma ID SDBC-HEB-LEMMA-000003Page model version 1.0 Direction rtl Domain policy Sense-specific only; no lemma-level union
