ΠΑΤΡΙΟΥΣ, πατριους
PATRIOUS, patrious
Sounds Like: pa-TREE-oos
Translations: ancestral, traditional, hereditary, of one's fathers
From the root: ΠΑΤΡΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'ancestral' or 'traditional,' referring to things that belong to or are handed down from one's fathers or ancestors. It describes customs, laws, or practices that are inherited or established by tradition. For example, it could be used to describe 'ancestral laws' or 'traditional customs'.
Inflection: Accusative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G3967 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 19:310
- Book 4 — 4:71, 6:130
- Book 7 — 7:130, 7:131
- Book 8 — 13:361
- Book 9 — 12:243
- Book 10 — 10:214
- Book 11 — 5:140
- Book 12 — 3:142, 5:240
- Book 14 — 10:235, 10:242, 10:260
- Book 18 — 6:172
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 27:135
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 9:1
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
- ΠΑΤΡΙΟΣ — of a father, ancestral, traditional, hereditary, native, national, a father's
- ΠΑΤΡΙΟΥ — ancestral, hereditary, traditional, of the fathers, of the country
- 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
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.