noun · masculine

abba

Greekαββα (abba)

Strong’sG5

Father

stem abb-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

abba3×

What it means

Ἀββά (T, -ᾶ), indecl. (Aram, אַבָּא, emphatic form of אַב = Heb. אָב, father),

used in the phrase Ἀ. ὁ πατήρ, Abba, Father (v. Swete on Mk 14:36): Mk 14:36, Ro 8:15, Ga 4:6.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidab-bah'

father as a vocative

Fromof Chaldee origin ();

King JamesAbba.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	abba	abba
object accusative	abba	abba
direct address vocative	abba3×Αββα	abba
of, belonging to genitive	abba	abba
to, for dative	abba	abba

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

abbastem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

abba“abba”direct addressvocative singular3×

Mark 14:36“abba”kai legate; Abba tor patēror, panteim dunateim si; paraferasar tem potēriem houtem apo mu; alla ouk tinem mis thelamō alla tinem sis.“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”

Romans 8:15“abba”ouk gar lambava pneumem douleiau palin eis fobon, alla lambava pneumem huiothesiau en he krazanō; Abba tor patēror;For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Galatians 4:6“abba”hoti de avō huiois, exapostelata tos theos tem pneumem tou huiou autou eis tain kardiain nu, krazarōtem; Abba tor patēror.And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”