noun · masculine
pentheros
Strong’sG3995
a father-in-law
stem penther-once in the New Testament1 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.
πενθερός, -οῦ, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for חָם, Ge 38:13, al.; also for חֹתֵן, Jg 1:16 A;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3995 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpen-ther-os'
a wife's father
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesfather in law.
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
father-in-law, Refs 8th c.BC+; λαβὼν Ἄδραστον π. Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, parents-in-law, Refs 5th c.BC+
II generally, connexion by marriage, e.g. brother-in-law, Refs; also, ={γαμβρός}, son-in-law, Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskrit bándhus 'kinsman', Lithuanian beñdras 'comrade', Gothic bindan 'bind'.)
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 | pentheros1×πενθερὸς | pentherois |
| object accusative | pentheron | pentheroin |
| direct address vocative | pentheror | pentheroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | pentherou | pentheroiu |
| to, for dative | penthero | pentheroi |
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
penthero 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
pentheros“father-in-law”subjectnominative singular1×
John 18:13… agala pros Hannon prōtem; ate gar pentheros tou Kaiafou, hos ate archierevos tou …… first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that …