noun · masculine

pentheros

Greekπενθερός (pentheros)

Strong’sG3995

a father-in-law

stem penther-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

father-in-law1×

What it means

πενθερός, -οῦ, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for חָם, Ge 38:13, al.; also for חֹתֵן, Jg 1:16 A;]

a father-in-law: Jo 18:13.†

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.

Every form

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

pentherstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

pentheras — πενθερά, a mother-in-law

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

pentheros“father-in-law”subjectnominative singular1×

John 18:13“father-in-law”kai agala pros Hannaon prōtem; ate gar pentheros tou Kaiafaou, hos ate archierevos tou eniautou ekeinou;They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.