ΠΑΤΡΙΟΣ, πατριος
PATRIOS, patrios
Sounds Like: PAH-tree-oss
Translations: of a father, ancestral, traditional, hereditary, native, national, a father's
From the root: ΠΑΤΡΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that pertains to a father, or is inherited from ancestors, thus meaning ancestral, traditional, or native. It is often used to refer to customs, laws, or traditions that have been passed down through generations within a family or a nation. For example, one might speak of "ancestral customs" or "native land."
Inflection: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter; Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, or Dative; Singular or Plural (declines like a 2nd declension adjective)
Strong’s number: G3967 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 9:24
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 11:58
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 5:47
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 9:24
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΤΡΙΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΑΤΡΙΟΙ — ancestral, traditional, hereditary, native, of one's fathers, of one's country
- ΠΑΤΡΙΟΙΣ — (to) ancestral, (to) hereditary, (to) traditional, (to) paternal, (to) native
- ΠΑΤΡΙΟΥ — ancestral, hereditary, traditional, of the fathers, of the country
- ΠΑΤΡΙΟΥΣ — ancestral, traditional, hereditary, of one's fathers
- ΠΑΤΡΙΩ — ancestral, hereditary, traditional, of the fathers, of the ancestors
- ΤΗΝΠΑΤΡΙΟΝ — the ancestral, the traditional, the hereditary, the native
- ΤΟΥΠΑΤΡΙΟΥ — (of) the fathers, (of) ancestral, (of) hereditary, (of) traditional
- ΤΩΝΠΑΤΡΙΩΝ — of the fathers, of the ancestors, of the ancestral customs, of the ancestral traditions
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