Strong G3971πατρῷος
ancestral
- Transliteration
- patrōos
- Pronunciation
- pat-ro'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From G3962; paternal that is hereditary: - of fathers.
Detailed definition
πατρῷος, -α, -ον
(πατήρ), [in LXX: Pro.27:10 (אָב), Est.7:5, 2 -4Ma.12:1-19 *;]
of one's fathers, received from one's fathers: Act.22:3 24:14 28:17.†
(AS)
(πατήρ), [in LXX: Pro.27:10 (אָב), Est.7:5, 2 -4Ma.12:1-19 *;]
of one's fathers, received from one's fathers: Act.22:3 24:14 28:17.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3971 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- father3
First verses
- Acts 22:3I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
- Acts 24:14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
- Acts 28:17And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πατρῷος, α, ον,
also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 210 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1147 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πατρώϊος, η, ον, the only form used in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, and 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)]; the former first in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 888, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.290)], though both use the longer form, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 521, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.220)]; Thess. πατρούεος (which see): (πατήρ):— of or from one's father, coming or inherited from him, σκῆπτρον, ἔγχος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.46, 19.387; τέμενος, δῶμα, οἶκος, 20.391, 21.44, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 376)]; ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός my old hereditary friend, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.215; π. ἑταῖροι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.254, 17.69)]; γαῖα πατρωΐη one's fatherland, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (13.188, 251; πατρῴα γῆ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 888, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.290, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 67, etc.; π. οὖδας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 503; ἄστυ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1450)]; δῶμα, ἑστία, κοῖται, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1595, “Hec.” 22, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 194 (Lyric poetry))]; πατρώϊα one's father's goods, patrimony, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.80, 20.336, 22.61)]; τὰ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.26, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 819, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 27.11, variant in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1303b34; τὰ π. χρήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1658; θρόνος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 230, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 268, etc.)]; δοῦλοι π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.1; γέρεα [prev. author] 7.104; θυσίαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 3.30 codices; ἀρχή 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.7.6)]; π. δόξα hereditary glory, [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 7.5.16 (but πατρῴα καὶ παππῴα δόξα)] of our fathers and grandfathers, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.73))]; π. οἰκία, κλῆρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.62, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 157e, “Lg.” 923d, etc.; οὐσία 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 45)]; ἡ εἰρήνη ἡ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).68.13 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; ἔχων π. ἡμῶν ὑποθήκην [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 7339.6 (1st c.AD))]; π. θεοί tutelary gods of a family or people, as Apollo at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 933, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 302d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 55.3, “Sammelb.” 6262.5 (3rd c.AD))]; Zeus among the Dorians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 162.3; πρὸς θεῶν π. καὶ μητρῴων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.21, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.69: _sing._, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.169 (from Cyrene))]; Zeus was the θεὸς π. of Heracles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 288, 753)]; of Orestes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 671)]; Ζεὺς π. was also the god who protects parents' rights, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1468, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 881d, etc.)]
II ={πάτριος}, of or belonging to one's father, μῆλα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.136; π. πρὸς στάθμαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.45)]; π. ἄεθλοι imposed by him, [Refs ([prev. work] 4.220)]; but π. ἆθλος of him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 856 (Lyric poetry); π. γνώμη [prev. work] 640)]; π. φόνοι, πήματα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 990, 1196; π. χέρες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 210 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; τὰ πατρώϊα the cause of one's father, opposed to τὰ μητρώϊα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.53.)] —Grammars distinguished πατρῷος, as expressing patrimonial possession, from πάτριος as expressing hereditary manners, customs, institutions; see [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Ammonius Epigrammaticus “Diff.” s. see., “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 297, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, etc.)]—The distinction holds in Attic dialect Prose; but [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus use πατρώϊος)] 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+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 82, “Tr.” 162, “Ba.” 1368, “El.” 1315, Alcaeus249)]; but γῆς ἀπὸ πατρωΐης ends a pentameter in [Refs (“IG” 12.978.])]
also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 210 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1147 (Lyric poetry))], etc.; Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πατρώϊος, η, ον, the only form used in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, and 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)]; the former first in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 888, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.290)], though both use the longer form, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 521, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.220)]; Thess. πατρούεος (which see): (πατήρ):— of or from one's father, coming or inherited from him, σκῆπτρον, ἔγχος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.46, 19.387; τέμενος, δῶμα, οἶκος, 20.391, 21.44, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 376)]; ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός my old hereditary friend, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.215; π. ἑταῖροι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.254, 17.69)]; γαῖα πατρωΐη one's fatherland, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (13.188, 251; πατρῴα γῆ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 888, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.290, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 67, etc.; π. οὖδας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 503; ἄστυ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1450)]; δῶμα, ἑστία, κοῖται, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1595, “Hec.” 22, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 194 (Lyric poetry))]; πατρώϊα one's father's goods, patrimony, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.80, 20.336, 22.61)]; τὰ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.26, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 819, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 27.11, variant in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1303b34; τὰ π. χρήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1658; θρόνος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 230, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 268, etc.)]; δοῦλοι π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.1; γέρεα [prev. author] 7.104; θυσίαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 3.30 codices; ἀρχή 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.7.6)]; π. δόξα hereditary glory, [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 7.5.16 (but πατρῴα καὶ παππῴα δόξα)] of our fathers and grandfathers, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.73))]; π. οἰκία, κλῆρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.62, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 157e, “Lg.” 923d, etc.; οὐσία 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 45)]; ἡ εἰρήνη ἡ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).68.13 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; ἔχων π. ἡμῶν ὑποθήκην [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 7339.6 (1st c.AD))]; π. θεοί tutelary gods of a family or people, as Apollo at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 933, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 302d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 55.3, “Sammelb.” 6262.5 (3rd c.AD))]; Zeus among the Dorians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 162.3; πρὸς θεῶν π. καὶ μητρῴων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.21, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.69: _sing._, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.169 (from Cyrene))]; Zeus was the θεὸς π. of Heracles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 288, 753)]; of Orestes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 671)]; Ζεὺς π. was also the god who protects parents' rights, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1468, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 881d, etc.)]
II ={πάτριος}, of or belonging to one's father, μῆλα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.136; π. πρὸς στάθμαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.45)]; π. ἄεθλοι imposed by him, [Refs ([prev. work] 4.220)]; but π. ἆθλος of him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 856 (Lyric poetry); π. γνώμη [prev. work] 640)]; π. φόνοι, πήματα, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 990, 1196; π. χέρες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 210 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; τὰ πατρώϊα the cause of one's father, opposed to τὰ μητρώϊα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.53.)] —Grammars distinguished πατρῷος, as expressing patrimonial possession, from πάτριος as expressing hereditary manners, customs, institutions; see [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Ammonius Epigrammaticus “Diff.” s. see., “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 297, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, etc.)]—The distinction holds in Attic dialect Prose; but [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus use πατρώϊος)] 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+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 82, “Tr.” 162, “Ba.” 1368, “El.” 1315, Alcaeus249)]; but γῆς ἀπὸ πατρωΐης ends a pentameter in [Refs (“IG” 12.978.])]