patrōos

Strong’sG3971

hereditary

stem patrō-3 times in the New Testament3 of 26 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.

πατρῷος, -α, -ον

(< πατήρ), [in LXX: Pr 27:10 (אָב), II Es 7:5, II-IV Mac12*;]

of one's fathers, received from one's fathers: Ac 22:3 24:14 28:17.†

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

Strong’s G3971 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpat-ro'-os

paternal, i.e. hereditary

Fromfrom G3962;

King Jamesof fathers.

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

πατρῷος, α, ον,
also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πατρώϊος, η, ον, the only form used in Refs 8th c.BC+; the former first in Refs 6th c.BC+, though both use the longer form, Refs 6th c.BC+; Thess. πατρούεος (which see): (πατήρ):— of or from one's father, coming or inherited from him, σκῆπτρον, ἔγχος, Refs 8th c.BC+; ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός my old hereditary friend, Refs 8th c.BC+; γαῖα πατρωΐη one's fatherland, Refs 6th c.BC+; δῶμα, ἑστία, κοῖται, Refs 5th c.BC+; πατρώϊα one's father's goods, patrimony, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὰ π. Refs 5th c.BC+; δοῦλοι π. Refs 5th c.BC+; π. δόξα hereditary glory, Refs of our fathers and grandfathers, Refs 4th c.BC+; π. οἰκία, κλῆρος, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ εἰρήνη ἡ π. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἔχων π. ἡμῶν ὑποθήκην Refs 1st c.AD+; π. θεοί tutelary gods of a family or people, as Apollo at Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+; Zeus among the Dorians, Refs 5th c.BC+; Zeus was the θεὸς π. of Heracles, Refs 5th c.BC+; of Orestes, Refs 5th c.BC+; Ζεὺς π. was also the god who protects parents' rights, Refs 5th c.BC+
II ={πάτριος}, of or belonging to one's father, μῆλα Refs 8th c.BC+; π. ἄεθλοι imposed by him, Refs; but π. ἆθλος of him, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. φόνοι, πήματα, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ πατρώϊα the cause of one's father, opposed to τὰ μητρώϊα, Refs 5th c.BC+ —Grammars distinguished πατρῷος, as expressing patrimonial possession, from πάτριος as expressing hereditary manners, customs, institutions; see Refs 5th c.AD+—The distinction holds in Attic dialect Prose; but Refs 8th c.BC+ only, and in all these senses; so also Trag. [πάτριος should be restored in all passages in Trag. where the 2nd pers. syllable is made short in anapaest meter and Lyric poetry, Refs 5th c.BC+; but γῆς ἀπὸ πατρωΐης ends a pentameter in Refs

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.

fathers3×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	patrōos	patrōas	patrōem	patrōois	patrōais	patrōeim
object accusative	patrōon	patrōan		patrōoin	patrōain
direct address vocative	patrōor	patrōar		patrōoir	patrōair
of, belonging to genitive	patrōou1×πατρῴου	patrōau	patrōeu	patrōoiu	patrōaiu	patrōeiu
to, for dative	patrōo1×πατρῴῳ	patrōa	patrōe	patrōoi	patrōai	patrōei1×πατρῴοις

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

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

patrō 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

patrōou“fathers”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 22:3… podoin Gamaliēl, paideuorēntos kata akribeian tou patrōou nomou, zēlōtos huparcharōntos tou theou kathōs …… conformity to the law of our fathers. I was just as zealous for …

patrōo“fathers”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 24:14… han legalō hairesian houtōs latreuamō to patrōo theo, pisteuarōntos pantei tei kata ton …… I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they …

patrōei“fathers”to, fordative plural1×

Acts 28:17… to lao ē tei ethei tei patrōei desmios ek Hierosolumeiu paradōima eis tain …… people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem …