2001 Translation

PATRŌOU, patrōou

Sounds Like: pa-TROH-oo

Translations: (of) a father, (of) paternal, (of) ancestral, (of) hereditary

From the root: ΠΑΤΡΩΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'of a father', 'paternal', 'ancestral', or 'hereditary'. It describes something that belongs to or is inherited from a father or ancestors. It is used to qualify nouns, indicating their origin or connection to a paternal lineage or tradition.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine or Neuter

Strong’s number: G3966 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 16:16
• Acts of the Apostles — 22:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 14:382
• Book 19 — 1:13

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Ezra (Beta) — 7:5
• 2 Maccabees — 5:10
• 3 Maccabees — 1:23

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 22:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ΠΑΤΡΩΑ — paternal, ancestral, of a father, hereditary
• ΠΑΤΡΩΑΙΣ — to ancestral, for ancestral, to paternal, for paternal, to hereditary, for hereditary
• ΠΑΤΡΩΑΝ — paternal, ancestral, hereditary, of a father
• ΠΑΤΡΩΑΣ — paternal, ancestral, hereditary, traditional
• ΠΑΤΡΩΟ — ancestral, paternal, hereditary, of a father, of one's fathers
• ΠΑΤΡΩΟΙ — paternal, ancestral, hereditary, of one's fathers, of one's ancestors
• ΠΑΤΡΩΟΙΣ — (to) ancestral, (to) hereditary, (to) paternal, (to) of one's fathers
• ΠΑΤΡΩΟΝ — ancestral, paternal, hereditary, traditional
• ΠΑΤΡΩΟΥΣ — ancestral, paternal, hereditary, traditional
• ΠΑΤΡΩΩ — ancestral, paternal, of one's fathers, hereditary
• ΠΑΤΡΩΩΝ — of fathers, ancestral, hereditary, paternal
• ΤΗΠΑΤΡΩΑ — paternal, ancestral, hereditary, of a father

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