My father; or, our father; so they call him, both to show their reverence and affection to him, and to mitigate his exasperated mind.
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2 Kings 5:13
13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?