Abiathar ( אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the father is pre-eminent or father of plenty ), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli ( 1 Sam.

When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam ( 1 Sam.

His father was Simon " Sam " Marx, who changed his name from Marrix, and was called " Frenchie " throughout his life because he and his family came from Alsace-Lorraine.

Following the departure of his father and stepbrothers for Saudi Arabia, Philby continued to live alone in Ajaltun, but took a flat in Beirut after beginning an affair with Eleanor, the Seattle-born wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

The paper's return is interrupted when the US Army, led by Lois's father, General Sam Lane, forcibly shuts down the business.

Elkanah is Samuel's father and lives at Ramah ( 1 Sam.

Famous names include the physicist, Lord Kelvin, ' father of economics ' Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Joseph Black, Sir John Boyd Orr, Professor Sam Karunaratne, Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Lister.

Johnson's father had served six terms in the Texas legislature and was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman Sam Rayburn.

Sam is Frodo Baggins ' gardener, having inherited the position as Baggins ' gardener from his father, Hamfast " Gaffer " Gamgee.

At the time of the War of the Ring, Sam was living in Number 3, Bagshot Row with his father.

In 1995, Sam suffered a heart attack, and his father returned to oversee operations.

Ahimelech ( Hebrew: אחימלך " the king is brother "), the son of Ahitub and father of Abiathar ( 1 Sam.

On the death of his grandfather Eli he most likely succeeded to the office of high priest, and would have been succeeded by his son Ahijah ( references to Ahitub as the father of are in 1 Sam.

) The father of Zadok ( 2 Sam.

# The father of Machir of Lo-debar, in whose house Mephibosheth resided ( 2 Sam.

However, on May 11, 1933, the Marx Brothers ' father Sam " Frenchie " Marx died in Los Angeles of a heart attack, and shortly afterwards, the contract dispute with Paramount was settled.

* Samuel " Sam " McGuire ( Robert Carradine ): is Lizzie and Matt's father.

Juliet also reveals a note to her father from her alcoholic brother-in-law, Sam Hastings, which in turn reveals that Dr. Forrest gave him a dollar bill " for safekeeping ".

* Sam Nixon, the grandfather of President Richard Nixon was born, raised and lived most of his life in the township before his son ( the president's father ) Francis A. Nixon moved to nearby Ohio and subsequently California.

In two films-Iris ( 2001 ) and the 1996 television film Over Here, Sam and his father have played the same character at different ages.

I Am Sam ( stylized i am sam ) is a 2001 American drama film written and directed by Jessie Nelson, and starring Sean Penn as a father with a developmental disability, Dakota Fanning as his inquisitive seven-year-old daughter, and Michelle Pfeiffer as his lawyer.

Sam Dawson ( Sean Penn ), a man with a developmental disability, is the single father of Lucy ( Dakota Fanning ), following their abandonment by her mother.

Other children tease her for having a " retard " as a father, and she becomes too embarrassed to accept that she is more intellectually advanced than Sam.

Both Sagan and his sister agree that their father was not especially religious, but that their mother " definitely believed in God, and was active in the temple ... and served only Kosher meat ".

Born Bhadase Sagan Maraj in the tiny village of Caroni, the young Hindu's first ambition was to take his family out of the poverty, deprivation and degradation that had been their lot ever since his father stepped off an indentured labourers ' boat.

Duchess Wilhelmine of Courland, and of Sagan ( Czechised name version: Kateřina Vilemina Zaháňská ), this historic person features in the novel Babicka ( The Grandmother ) by Božena Němcová ) inherited the Náchod manor in 1800 from her father Peter von Biron, Duke of Courland, and of Sagan.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His father was a constant visitor.