noun · feminine
patridas
Strong’sG3968
fatherland
stem patrid-8 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books2 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.
πατρίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(< πατήρ), [in LXX chiefly for מוֹלֶדֶת;] prop. poët. fern. of πάτριος,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3968 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpat-rece'
a father-land, i.e. native town; (figuratively) heavenly home
Fromfrom G3902;
King James(own) country.
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
poetry feminine of πάτριος, of one's fathers, πατρὶς αἶα, ἄρουρα, one's fatherland, country, Refs 8th c.BC+; γῆ π. Refs 5th c.BC+; π. πόλις the city of one's sires, Refs 5th c.BC+
II substantive, ={πάτρα}Refs 8th c.BC+; κοινὴ π., i. e. the nether world, Refs 1st c.AD+, ubi bene, ibi patria, Refs 5th c.BC+; simply, native town or village, NT+5th c.BC+
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 | patridas | patridais |
| object accusative | patridan3×πατρίδα | patridain |
| direct address vocative | patridar | patridair |
| of, belonging to genitive | patridau | patridaiu |
| to, for dative | patrida5×πατρίδι | patridai |
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
patrida 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.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
patridan“hometown”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 13:54kai ercharantos eis tan patridan autou didaskate autoin en ta sunagōga …Coming to His hometown, He taught the people in their …
Mark 6:1… exerchata ekeithen, kai erchotō eis tan patridan autou, kai akolouthalō auto tois mathētois …… from there and came to His hometown, accompanied by His disciples.
Hebrews 11:14“homeland”tois gar toiouteim legarōntois emfanizalō hoti patridan epizētalō.Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country …
patrida“hometown”to, fordative singular5×
Matthew 13:57… profētos atimos ei mē en ta patrida kai en ta oikia autou.… said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is …
Mark 6:4… profētos atimos ei mē en ta patrida autou kai en toi sungenoi autou …… said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his …
Luke 4:23… Kafarnaoum poiasar kai hōde en ta patrida su.… heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You …
Luke 4:24… oudenos profētos dektos atō en ta patrida autou.… no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
John 4:44“country”… marturata hoti profētos en ta idia patrida timan ouk echatō.… Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.