adjective

patrikas

Greekπατρικός (patrikos)

Strong’sG3967

paternal, ancestral

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

Translated as

fathers1×

What it means

πατρικός, -ή, -όν

(< πατήρ), [in LXX for אָב, Ge 50:8, al.;]

paternal, ancestral: Ga 1:14.†

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

Strong’s G3967 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpat-ree-kos'

paternal, i.e. ancestral

Fromfrom G3962;

King Jamesof fathers.

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	patrikos	patrikas	patrikem	patrikois	patrikais	patrikeim
object accusative	patrikon	patrikan		patrikoin	patrikain
direct address vocative	patrikor	patrikar		patrikoir	patrikair
of, belonging to genitive	patrikou	patrikau	patrikeu	patrikoiu	patrikaiu1×πατρικῶν	patrikeiu
to, for dative	patriko	patrika	patrike	patrikoi	patrikai	patrikei

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

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

patrik 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

patrikaiu“fathers”of, belonging togenitive plural1×

Galatians 1:14“fathers”kai prokoptame en to Ioudaismo huper polloin sunēlikiōtoin en te gene mu, perissoterōs zēlōtos huparcharōtos taiu patrikaiu mu paradosiaiu.I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.