2001 Translation

PATĒR, patēr

Sounds Like: pa-TEER

Translations: father, a father, parent, ancestor

From the root: ΠΑΤΗΡ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a father, a male parent, or an ancestor. It can also be used metaphorically to refer to God as the Father of humanity or of believers. It is typically used in a nominative case when it is the subject of a sentence.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3962 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 32:6

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 12:8, 14:6

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:16, 2:18, 2:84, 5:14, 6:21, 9:2, 10:9, 10:18, 10:20, 10:23, 10:35, 12:21

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 4:8, 23:1, 31:2, 35:3, 56:16

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judges — 9:17
• 1 Chronicles — 9:35, 19:2
• Tobit — 1:8, 6:12, 8:21, 9:4, 10:8, 11:8, 11:17, 13:4
• 1 Maccabees — 2:65, 16:21
• 4 Maccabees — 2:19, 10:2
• Psalms — 88:27, 102:13
• Proverbs — 17:21, 23:24, 23:25, 29:3
• Job — 42:15
• Wisdom — 11:10, 14:15
• Sirach — 30:4
• Isaiah — 22:21, 63:16
• Jeremiah — 42:6, 42:10
• Matthew — 24:36
• Mark — 11:25, 13:32
• Luke — 1:67, 2:33, 2:48, 6:36, 10:21, 10:22, 11:13, 12:30, 12:32, 12:53, 15:20, 15:22, 15:27, 15:28, 22:29
• John — 3:35, 4:23, 5:26, 5:36, 5:37, 6:27, 8:18, 8:19, 8:42, 8:44, 10:15, 10:17, 10:29, 10:30, 10:38, 12:26, 12:50, 14:11, 14:13, 14:23, 14:28, 14:31, 15:1, 15:8, 15:9, 16:27, 16:32, 18:11, 20:21
• Acts of the Apostles — 1:7, 16:3
• Romans — 4:16
• 1 Corinthians — 8:6
• 2 Corinthians — 1:3, 11:31
• Galatians — 4:6
• Ephesians — 1:3, 1:17, 4:6
• 1 Thessalonians — 2:11, 3:11
• 2 Thessalonians — 2:16
• Hebrews — 12:7
• James — 2:21
• 1 Peter — 1:3
• 1 John — 3:1, 4:14
• Epistle of Barnabas — 12:8, 14:6

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 8:2
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 2:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 9:2, 13:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 19:135, 35:245
• Book Two — 35:245

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:20, 2:65, 3:79, 6:148, 13:222, 13:229, 16:242, 16:248, 18:258, 18:265, 18:275, 19:289, 19:295
• Book 2 — 1:4, 3:22, 3:38, 6:102, 6:103, 6:147, 9:229
• Book 4 — 8:246, 8:262
• Book 5 — 1:93, 10:340
• Book 6 — 6:119, 6:130, 9:177, 11:229, 11:231, 13:309
• Book 7 — 4:89, 4:93, 8:173, 8:179, 8:190, 9:218, 9:220, 14:337, 14:346, 15:387
• Book 8 — 1:15, 2:21
• Book 9 — 8:169, 8:184, 13:275
• Book 10 — 2:26, 11:220, 11:230
• Book 12 — 2:45, 6:158, 6:186, 6:194, 6:195, 6:203, 6:212, 6:224, 11:432
• Book 13 — 7:111
• Book 14 — 1:18, 7:126, 9:181, 10:255, 12:300
• Book 16 — 4:98, 4:126, 10:305, 11:362, 11:400
• Book 17 — 2:45, 5:91, 8:201, 11:322
• Book 18 — 6:213
• Book 19 — 6:297
• Book 20 — 1:11, 2:21, 2:22, 8:148

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 11:20, 17:10, 24:8, 24:15, 25:9, 25:15, 26:4, 27:4, 28:16, 29:5, 29:6, 31:6, 32:3, 33:3, 34:15
• Book Two — 9:12, 11:19
• Book Three — 7:107
• Book Five — 4:2, 4:17, 5:22
• Book Six — 6:23
• Book Seven — 5:24

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 45:1, 63:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:5, 0:9
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 2:2, 25:2, 30:3, 62:4, 63:3, 67:6, 76:3, 76:5, 77:4, 86:2, 95:2, 95:3, 96:3, 100:1, 101:2, 102:2, 103:8, 113:5, 119:4, 127:2, 128:2, 128:3, 129:1, 140:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 2:7, 17:88, 35:175

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 12:9

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 8:2, 12:2, 14:1

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 1:4

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:17

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 4:20, 9:18, 9:22, 11:29, 17:4, 19:31, 19:37, 19:38, 26:5, 26:18, 27:10, 27:12, 27:14, 27:26, 27:31, 27:32, 27:39, 27:41, 31:7, 34:6, 35:18, 36:43, 37:1, 37:4, 37:10, 37:11, 37:35, 42:35, 42:36, 43:2, 43:7, 43:11, 43:27, 43:28, 44:20, 44:25, 44:27, 45:3, 47:1, 47:5, 48:1, 48:17, 49:28, 50:5, 50:15, 50:16
• Exodus — 22:17
• Numbers — 12:14, 27:3, 30:5, 30:6
• Deuteronomy — 21:19, 22:15, 22:16, 26:5, 32:6
• Joshua — 24:2
• Judges — 9:17, 11:37, 14:3, 14:4, 14:5, 14:10, 15:1, 15:2, 19:3, 19:4, 19:5, 19:6, 19:8, 19:9
• Ruth — 4:17
• 1 Samuel — 1:24, 9:5, 10:2, 10:12, 14:28, 14:29, 14:51, 20:2, 20:3, 20:6, 20:10, 20:34, 22:3, 23:17
• 2 Samuel — 10:2, 13:5, 15:34, 17:8, 17:10
• 1 Kings — 1:6, 2:26, 2:32, 3:14, 7:2, 9:4, 11:8, 11:33, 12:4, 12:9, 12:10, 12:11, 12:14, 12:24, 13:12, 15:11, 21:34
• 2 Kings — 1:18, 3:2, 14:3, 15:3, 15:34, 16:2, 18:3, 21:3, 21:20, 21:21, 24:9
• 1 Chronicles — 2:17, 2:42, 2:45, 2:50, 2:51, 4:4, 4:11, 4:19, 4:21, 7:22, 7:31, 8:29, 9:35, 19:2, 26:10, 29:10
• 2 Chronicles — 2:7, 2:14, 2:17, 7:17, 10:4, 10:9, 10:10, 10:11, 10:14, 17:2, 21:3, 24:22, 26:4, 27:2, 28:1, 29:2, 33:3, 33:22, 33:23
• Tobit — 1:8, 5:9, 5:17, 6:12, 6:16, 7:5, 7:5, 8:21, 9:4, 9:4, 10:1, 10:7, 10:7, 11:7, 11:8, 11:17, 11:17, 13:4, 13:4
• 1 Maccabees — 2:54, 16:21
• 2 Maccabees — 9:23, 14:37
• 4 Maccabees — 2:19, 7:5, 7:11, 10:2, 16:20, 18:9
• Psalms — 26:10, 88:27, 102:13
• Psalms of Solomon — 8:10, 8:20
• Odes — 2:6, 14:10
• Proverbs — 17:21, 23:24, 23:25, 29:3
• Job — 29:16, 31:18, 38:28, 42:15
• Wisdom — 11:10, 14:15
• Sirach — 4:10, 30:4, 44:19
• Isaiah — 17:11, 22:21, 63:16, 64:8
• Jeremiah — 2:27, 42:6, 42:10, 42:18
• Lamentations — 5:3
• Ezekiel — 16:3, 16:45, 18:18, 18:20
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 5:2, 5:11, 5:13
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 5:2
• Amos — 2:7
• Zechariah — 13:3
• Malachi — 1:6, 2:10
• Enoch — 32:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 5:48, 6:4, 6:6, 6:8, 6:14, 6:15, 6:18, 6:26, 6:32, 7:11, 10:21, 11:26, 11:27, 15:13, 16:17, 18:35, 23:9, 24:36
• Mark — 9:24, 11:25, 13:12, 13:32, 14:36
• Luke — 1:67, 2:33, 2:48, 6:36, 10:21, 10:22, 11:13, 12:30, 12:32, 12:53, 15:20, 15:22, 15:27, 15:28, 22:29
• John — 3:35, 4:23, 4:53, 5:17, 5:20, 5:21, 5:22, 5:26, 5:36, 5:37, 6:27, 6:32, 6:37, 6:44, 6:57, 8:18, 8:19, 8:28, 8:39, 8:42, 8:44, 8:54, 8:56, 10:15, 10:17, 10:29, 10:30, 10:36, 10:38, 12:26, 12:49, 12:50, 13:3, 14:10, 14:11, 14:13, 14:23, 14:26, 14:28, 14:31, 15:1, 15:8, 15:9, 16:15, 16:27, 16:32, 17:21, 17:24, 17:25, 18:11, 20:21
• Acts — 1:7
• Romans — 4:16, 8:15
• 1 Corinthians — 8:6
• 2 Corinthians — 1:3, 11:31
• Galatians — 4:6
• Ephesians — 1:3, 1:17, 4:6
• 1 Thessalonians — 2:11, 3:11
• 2 Thessalonians — 2:16
• Hebrews — 12:7
• James — 2:21
• 1 Peter — 1:3
• 1 John — 3:1, 4:14

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 1:5

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΤΗΡ.

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.

• ΑΤΕΡʼ — Father, a father, (O) Father
• ΑΤΗΡ — father, a father, Father
• ΠΑΤΕΡ — father, a father
• ΠΑΤΕΡʼ — Father, O Father
• ΠΑΤΕΡΑ — father, a father
• ΠΑΤΕΡΕΣ — fathers, parents, ancestors
• ΠΑΤΕΡΩ — of fathers, to fathers, fathers
• ΠΑΤΕΡΩΝ — of fathers, of parents, of ancestors
• ΠΑΤΕΡ‾Ω‾ — of fathers, fathers
• ΠΑΤΕΣ — father, a father
• ΠΑΤΗΡʼ — father, a father
• ΠΑΤΡ — father, a father, of a father, to fathers, ancestors
• ΠΑΤΡΑΣΙ — to fathers, to the fathers, to ancestors, to the ancestors
• ΠΑΤΡΑΣΙΝ — (to) fathers, (to) ancestors
• ΠΑΤΡΙ — to a father, to the father, for a father, for the father
• ΠΑΤΡΙΚΟΝ — paternal, ancestral, hereditary, of a father, fatherly, a paternal thing
• ΠΑΤΡΙΩΝ — of ancestral, of traditional, of hereditary, of fathers, of ancestors
• ΠΑΤΡΟ — of a father, of the father, of a parent, of the parent, of an ancestor, of the ancestor
• ΠΑΤΡΟΘΕΝ — from the father, from one's father, from a father's side, from a father
• ΠΑΤΡΟΣ — of a father, of the father, of a parent, of the parent, of God, of the Lord
• ΠΑΤΡΟΣΩΝΙΕΙΜ — Patrosoneim, the Patrosoneim
• ΠΑΤΡΩΟΣ — paternal, ancestral, hereditary, of a father, from a father
• Π‾Α‾ΤΙ — to a father, to the Father, for a father, for the Father
• Π‾ΗΡ‾ — Father, a Father
• Π‾Η‾Ρ — Father, a Father
• Π‾ΡΑΣ‾ — (of) Father, (of) a Father
• Π‾ΡΑ‾ — father, a father, Fathers, a Fathers
• Π‾ΡΑ‾Σ — of Father, of a Father, Father's
• Π‾ΡΟΣ‾ — of Father, of a Father, of the Father
• Π‾ΡΣ‾ — (of) Father
• Π‾ΡΩΝ‾ — of fathers, of our fathers, of ancestors
• ΤΗΝΠΑΤΡΩΑΝ — the ancestral, the paternal, the hereditary
• ΤΟΝΠΑΤΕΡΑ — the father
• ΤΟΥΠΑΤΡΟΣ — (of) the father
• ΤΩΠΑΤΡΙ — to the father, for the father
• ‾ΠΑΤΕΡ‾ — Father, a Father
• ‾ΠΗΡ‾ — Father, a father
• ‾ΠΗ‾Ρ — Father, a Father
• ‾ΠΡΑΣ‾ — (of) Father, (of) a Father
• ‾ΠΡΑ‾ — father, a father, (of) father, (to) father
• ‾ΠΡΑ‾Σ — of Father, of a Father, of the Father
• ‾ΠΡΕΣ‾ — (of) Father, Father's
• ‾ΠΡΙ‾ — (to) Father, (to) a Father
• ‾ΠΡΣ‾ — (of) Father, (of) a Father
• ‾ΠΡΩΝ‾ — of fathers, of the fathers
• ‾ΠΡ‾Α — Father, a Father
• ‾ΠΡ‾Ι — to the Father, to a Father
• ‾ΠΡ‾Σ — (of) Father, (of) a Father

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