noun · masculine
patriarchos
Strong’sG3966
a patriarch
stem patriarch-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† πατριάρχης, -ου, ὁ
(< πατριά, ἄρχω), [in LXX: I Ch 24:31 (אָב), II Ch 19:8 26:12 (הָאָבוֹת רֹאשׁ), I Ch 27:12 (שַׂר), II Ch 23:20 (שַׂר־הַמֵּאוֹת), IV Mac 7:19 16:25*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3966 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpat-ree-arkh'-ace
a progenitor ("patriarch")
Fromfrom G3965 and G757;
King Jamespatriarch.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(πατρι father or chief of a race, patriarch, LXX+NT
II title borne by the Bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria, Refs 6th c.AD+:— adjective πατρι-αρχικός, ή, όν, of or belonging to him, θρόνοςRefs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | patriarchos1×πατριάρχης | patriarchois1×πατριάρχαι |
| object accusative | patriarchon | patriarchoin1×πατριάρχας |
| direct address vocative | patriarchor | patriarchoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | patriarchou1×πατριάρχου | patriarchoiu |
| to, for dative | patriarcho | patriarchoi |
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
patriarcho 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
patriarchos“patriarch”subjectnominative singular1×
Hebrews 7:4… Abraam dōata ek teiu akrothinieiu tos patriarchos.… how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of …
patriarchou“patriarch”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 2:29… meta parrēsiau pros vin peri tou patriarchou David, hoti kai teleutata kai thaptita, …… tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and …
patriarchois“patriarchs”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 7:9Kai tois patriarchois zēlarantois ton Iōsēf apodōela eis Aiguptan; …Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold …
patriarchoin“patriarchs”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 7:8… ton Iakōb, kai Iakōb toin dōdeka patriarchoin.… Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.