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. 
a father to # 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. 
a father to # 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. 
a father to # 18_JOB_29_16 # I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out.