adjective

apatōros

Greekἀπάτωρ (apatōr)

Strong’sG540

without father, of unknown father

stem apatōr-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

without father1×

What it means

* ἀπάτωρ, -ορος, ὁ, ὴ

(< ἀ- neg., πατήρ);

1. fatherless.

2. without father (MM, VGT, s.v.), i.e., with no recorded genealogy: He 7:3.†

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

Strong’s G540 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidap-at'-ore

fatherless, i.e. of unrecorded paternity

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and G3962;

King Jameswithout father.

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	apatōros1×ἀπάτωρ	apatōras	apatōrem	apatōrois	apatōrais	apatōreim
object accusative	apatōron	apatōran		apatōroin	apatōrain
direct address vocative	apatōror	apatōrar		apatōroir	apatōrair
of, belonging to genitive	apatōrou	apatōrau	apatōreu	apatōroiu	apatōraiu	apatōreiu
to, for dative	apatōro	apatōra	apatōre	apatōroi	apatōrai	apatōrei

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

apatōrstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

apatōr is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

apatōros“without father”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 7:3“without father”apatōros, amētōros, agenealogētos, mēte archan hēmeraiu mēte zōau telem echarōtos, afomoiirētos de to huio tou theou, menatō hierevos eis tem diēnekem.Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.