noun · masculine
propatōros
Strong’sG3962
father, Father, ancestor
stem propatōr-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.
** προ-πάτωρ, -ορος, ὁ
(< πατήρ), [in LXX: III Mac 2:21 A*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3962 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpat-ayr'
a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote)
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamesfather, parent.
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
genitive and dative πατέρος, πατέρι in Epic dialect and Lyric poetry, Attic dialect πατρός, πατρί (which is also the commoner form in Refs 8th c.BC+; accusative always πατέρ; vocative πάτερ: plural πατέρες, πατέρας, πατέρων (πατρῶν only Refs 8th c.BC+; dative πατράσι [ᾰ] (cf. Sanskrit locative plural pitṛ[snull]u, no dative plural occurs in Refs 8th c.BC+, late Epic dialect πατέρεσσι Refs 4th c.AD+:— father, Refs 8th c.BC+; πατρὸς πατήρ grandfather,Refs 8th c.BC+; τὰ πρὸς πατρός by the father's side, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; especially of God, the father of the Israelites, LXX; father of men, NT; father of Jesus Christ, Refs
II especially as epithet of Zeus, πατὴρ Ζεύς, π. Κρονίδης, π. ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε, Refs 8th c.BC+; Ζεὺς π. Refs 5th c.BC+; π. Οὐρανιδᾶν Ζ. Refs 5th c.BC+
III respectful mode of addressing persons older than oneself, ξεὶνε πάτερ Refs 8th c.BC+, etc.; in addressing an elder brother, Refs 2nd c.BC+
IV metaphorically, father, author, ἀοιδᾶν π... εὐαίνητος Ὀρφεύς Refs 5th c.BC+; Χρόνος ὁ πάντων π. Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦ λόγου π. Refs; ὁ π. τῶν φώτων, i.e. God, the father of the stars, NT; οἱ π. τῶν ἀτόμων the authors of the atomic theory, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of capital, τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκγόνους τόκους Refs 5th c.BC+
V title of a grade in the mysteries of Mithras, Refs
VI π. πατρίδος, = Latin pater patriae, Refs 1st c.AD+
VII in plural,
VII.1 forefathers, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐξέτι πατρῶν from our fathers' time, Refs 8th c.BC+
VII.2 parents, Refs 1st c.BC+
VII.3 parentnation, opposed to colonists, Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskritpitár-, Latin pater, etc.)
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 | propatōros | propatōrois |
| object accusative | propatōron1×προπάτορα | propatōroin |
| direct address vocative | propatōror | propatōroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | propatōrou | propatōroiu |
| to, for dative | propatōro | propatōroi |
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
propatōro 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
propatōron“forefather”objectaccusative singular1×
Romans 4:1Tinem oun legani heuriskarē Abraam ton propatōron nu kata sarkan?… shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?