noun · feminine
pentheras
Strong’sG3994
a mother-in-law
stem penther-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
πενθερά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(fem. of πενθερός), [in LXX for חָמוֹת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3994 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpen-ther-ah'
a wife's mother
Fromfeminine of G3995;
King Jamesmother in law, wife's mother.
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
Ionic dialect πενθερή, ἡ, feminine of πενθερός, mother-in-law, NT+4th 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 | pentheras3×πενθερὰ | pentherais |
| object accusative | pentheran2×πενθερὰν | pentherain |
| direct address vocative | pentherar | pentherair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pentherau1×πενθερᾶς | pentheraiu |
| to, for dative | penthera | pentherai |
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
penthera 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
pentheras“mother-in-law”subjectnominative singular3×
Mark 1:30tas de pentheras Simōnou katakeiote puressarōntas, kai euthuos legalō …Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a …
Luke 4:38… sunagōgau eiserchata eis tan oikian Simōnou. pentheras de tou Simōnou ate sunechorōntas pureto …… to the home of Simon, whose mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever …
Luke 12:53… thugatran kai thugatras epi tan mētēran, pentheras epi tan numfan autau kai numfas …… against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
pentheran“mother-in-law”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 8:14… eis tan oikian Petrou horata tan pentheran autou balorēntan kai puressarōntan;… at Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.
Luke 12:53… numfan autau kai numfas epi tan pentheran.… mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
pentherau“mother-in-law”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 10:35… mētērau autau kai numfan kata tau pentherau autau,… her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.