G3962: πατήρ
patḗr · “father”
Definition
a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote)
KJV translates it as: father, parent
Word origin: apparently a primary word;
Extended definition
a father;
1. prop.,
(a) of the male parent: Mat.2:22, Luk.1:17, Jhn.4:53; anarth., Heb.12:7 (M, Pr., 82 f.); pl., of both parents (cl.), Heb.11:23; οἱ π. τ. σαρκός, Heb.12:9;
(b) of a forefather or ancestor (in cl. usually in pl.; Hom., al.): Mat.3:9, Luk.1:73, Jhn.8:39, al.; pl., Mat.23:30, 32 Luk.6:23, 26 Jhn.4:20, 1Co.10:1, al.
2. Metaphorical,
(a) of an author, originator, or archetype (= αἴτιος, ἀρχηγός, etc.; Pind., Plat., al.): Jhn.8:41-44, Rom.4:11, 12 16.
(b) as a title of respect or honour, used of seniors, teachers and others in a position of responsible authority (Jdg.17:10, 2Ki.2:12, Pro.1:8, al.): Mat.23:9 Act.7:2 22:1, 1Jn.2:13.
3. Of God (as in cl. of Zeus) as Father;
(a) of created things: τ. φώτων, Jas.1:17;
(b) of all sentient beings: Eph.3:14, 15 Heb.12:9;
(with) of men, esp. those in covenant relation with Him (freq in OT and later Jewish lit.; see Dalman, Words, 184ff.): Mat.6:4, Luk.6:36, Jhn.4:21, Jas.3:9, al.; ὁ π. ὁ ἐν (τ.) οὐρανοῖς, Mat.5:16, Mrk.11:25; ὁ π. ὁ οὐράνιος, Mat.6:14 15:13; esp. in the Epp., of Christians: Rom.8:15, 2Co.6:18, Gal.4:6, Eph.2:18 4:6, 1Jn.2:1; with genitive qual., τ. οἰκτιρμῶν, 2Co.1:3; τ. δοξῆς, Eph.1:17;
(d) of Christ (Dalman, Words, 190 ff.);
(α) by our Lord himself: ὁ π., Mat.11:25-27, Luk.10:2, 22 Jhn.5:20-23, al.; ὁ π. μου, Mat.11:27, al.; ὁ ἐν τ. οὐρανοῖς, Mat.7:11, al.; ὁ οὐράνιος, Mat.15:13; vocat., Jhn.11:41 12:27, 28 17:1, 5, 11, 20, 25 (cf. Abbott, JG., 96 f.);
(β) by Apostles: Jhn.1:14 (anarth.; see M, Pr., l.with), Rom.15:6, 2Co.1:3 11:31, Eph.1:3, Col.1:3, Heb.1:5, 1Pe.1:3, Rev.1:6 (cf. Westc., Epp. Jo., 27-34).
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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G3962 is translated
- father ×264
- fathers ×39
- father, ×37
- the father ×24
- father. ×12
- fathers, ×7
- a father ×4
- father; ×4
- as father ×3
- the father. ×3
- the father, ×2
- father! ×2
Bible verses with G3962 (patḗr)
Patḗr appears in 372 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Matthew 2:22
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
- Matthew 3:9
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
- Matthew 4:21
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
- Matthew 4:22
And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
- Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
- Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
- Matthew 6:1
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 6:4
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
- Matthew 6:6
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
- Matthew 6:8
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
- Matthew 6:9
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
- Matthew 6:14
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
- Matthew 6:15
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
- Matthew 6:18
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
- Matthew 6:26
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Matthew 6:32
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
- Matthew 7:11
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
- Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 8:21
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
- Matthew 10:20
For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
- Matthew 10:21
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Matthew 10:29
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Matthew 10:32
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 10:33
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
All 372 references
- Matthew 10:35
- Matthew 10:37
- Matthew 11:25
- Matthew 11:26
- Matthew 11:27
- Matthew 12:50
- Matthew 13:43
- Matthew 15:4
- Matthew 15:5
- Matthew 15:13
- Matthew 16:17
- Matthew 16:27
- Matthew 18:10
- Matthew 18:14
- Matthew 18:19
- Matthew 18:35
- Matthew 19:5
- Matthew 19:19
- Matthew 19:29
- Matthew 20:23
- Matthew 21:31
- Matthew 23:9
- Matthew 23:30
- Matthew 23:32
- Matthew 24:36
- Matthew 25:34
- Matthew 26:29
- Matthew 26:39
- Matthew 26:42
- Matthew 26:53
- Matthew 28:19
- Mark 1:20
- Mark 5:40
- Mark 7:10
- Mark 7:11
- Mark 7:12
- Mark 8:38
- Mark 9:21
- Mark 9:24
- Mark 10:7
- Mark 10:19
- Mark 10:29
- Mark 11:10
- Mark 11:25
- Mark 11:26
- Mark 13:12
- Mark 13:32
- Mark 14:36
- Mark 15:21
- Luke 1:17
- Luke 1:32
- Luke 1:55
- Luke 1:59
- Luke 1:62
- Luke 1:67
- Luke 1:72
- Luke 1:73
- Luke 2:33
- Luke 2:48
- Luke 2:49
- Luke 3:8
- Luke 6:23
- Luke 6:26
- Luke 6:36
- Luke 8:51
- Luke 9:26
- Luke 9:42
- Luke 9:59
- Luke 10:21
- Luke 10:22
- Luke 11:2
- Luke 11:11
- Luke 11:13
- Luke 11:47
- Luke 11:48
- Luke 12:30
- Luke 12:32
- Luke 12:53
- Luke 14:26
- Luke 15:12
- Luke 15:17
- Luke 15:18
- Luke 15:20
- Luke 15:21
- Luke 15:22
- Luke 15:27
- Luke 15:28
- Luke 15:29
- Luke 16:24
- Luke 16:27
- Luke 16:30
- Luke 18:20
- Luke 22:29
- Luke 22:42
- Luke 23:34
- Luke 23:46
- Luke 24:49
- John 1:14
- John 1:18
- John 2:16
- John 3:35
- John 4:12
- John 4:20
- John 4:21
- John 4:23
- John 4:53
- John 5:17
- John 5:18
- John 5:19
- John 5:20
- John 5:21
- John 5:22
- John 5:23
- John 5:26
- John 5:30
- John 5:36
- John 5:37
- John 5:43
- John 5:45
- John 6:27
- John 6:31
- John 6:32
- John 6:37
- John 6:39
- John 6:40
- John 6:42
- John 6:44
- John 6:45
- John 6:46
- John 6:49
- John 6:57
- John 6:58
- John 6:65
- John 7:22
- John 8:16
- John 8:18
- John 8:19
- John 8:27
- John 8:28
- John 8:29
- John 8:38
- John 8:39
- John 8:41
- John 8:42
- John 8:44
- John 8:49
- John 8:53
- John 8:54
- John 8:56
- John 10:15
- John 10:17
- John 10:18
- John 10:25
- John 10:29
- John 10:30
- John 10:32
- John 10:36
- John 10:37
- John 10:38
- John 11:41
- John 12:26
- John 12:27
- John 12:28
- John 12:49
- John 12:50
- John 13:1
- John 13:3
- John 14:2
- John 14:6
- John 14:7
- John 14:8
- John 14:9
- John 14:10
- John 14:11
- John 14:12
- John 14:13
- John 14:16
- John 14:20
- John 14:21
- John 14:23
- John 14:24
- John 14:26
- John 14:28
- John 14:31
- John 15:1
- John 15:8
- John 15:9
- John 15:10
- John 15:15
- John 15:16
- John 15:23
- John 15:24
- John 15:26
- John 16:3
- John 16:10
- John 16:15
- John 16:16
- John 16:17
- John 16:23
- John 16:25
- John 16:26
- John 16:27
- John 16:28
- John 16:32
- John 17:1
- John 17:5
- John 17:11
- John 17:21
- John 17:24
- John 17:25
- John 18:11
- John 20:17
- John 20:21
- Acts 1:4
- Acts 1:7
- Acts 2:33
- Acts 3:13
- Acts 3:22
- Acts 3:25
- Acts 4:25
- Acts 5:30
- Acts 7:2
- Acts 7:4
- Acts 7:11
- Acts 7:12
- Acts 7:14
- Acts 7:15
- Acts 7:19
- Acts 7:20
- Acts 7:32
- Acts 7:38
- Acts 7:39
- Acts 7:44
- Acts 7:45
- Acts 7:51
- Acts 7:52
- Acts 13:17
- Acts 13:32
- Acts 13:36
- Acts 15:10
- Acts 16:1
- Acts 16:3
- Acts 22:1
- Acts 22:14
- Acts 26:6
- Acts 28:8
- Acts 28:25
- Romans 1:7
- Romans 4:11
- Romans 4:12
- Romans 4:16
- Romans 4:17
- Romans 4:18
- Romans 6:4
- Romans 8:15
- Romans 9:5
- Romans 9:10
- Romans 11:28
- Romans 15:6
- Romans 15:8
- 1 Corinthians 1:3
- 1 Corinthians 4:15
- 1 Corinthians 5:1
- 1 Corinthians 8:6
- 1 Corinthians 10:1
- 1 Corinthians 15:24
- 2 Corinthians 1:2
- 2 Corinthians 1:3
- 2 Corinthians 6:18
- 2 Corinthians 11:31
- Galatians 1:1
- Galatians 1:3
- Galatians 1:4
- Galatians 4:2
- Galatians 4:6
- Ephesians 1:2
- Ephesians 1:3
- Ephesians 1:17
- Ephesians 2:18
- Ephesians 3:14
- Ephesians 4:6
- Ephesians 5:20
- Ephesians 5:31
- Ephesians 6:2
- Ephesians 6:4
- Ephesians 6:23
- Philippians 1:2
- Philippians 2:11
- Philippians 2:22
- Philippians 4:20
- Colossians 1:2
- Colossians 1:3
- Colossians 1:12
- Colossians 2:2
- Colossians 3:17
- Colossians 3:21
- 1 Thessalonians 1:1
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3
- 1 Thessalonians 2:11
- 1 Thessalonians 3:11
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13
- 2 Thessalonians 1:1
- 2 Thessalonians 1:2
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16
- 1 Timothy 1:2
- 1 Timothy 5:1
- 2 Timothy 1:2
- Titus 1:4
- Philemon 1:3
- Hebrews 1:1
- Hebrews 1:5
- Hebrews 3:9
- Hebrews 7:10
- Hebrews 8:9
- Hebrews 11:23
- Hebrews 12:7
- Hebrews 12:9
- James 1:17
- James 1:27
- James 2:21
- James 3:9
- 1 Peter 1:2
- 1 Peter 1:3
- 1 Peter 1:17
- 2 Peter 1:17
- 2 Peter 3:4
- 1 John 1:2
- 1 John 1:3
- 1 John 2:1
- 1 John 2:13
- 1 John 2:14
- 1 John 2:15
- 1 John 2:16
- 1 John 2:22
- 1 John 2:23
- 1 John 2:24
- 1 John 3:1
- 1 John 4:14
- 1 John 5:7
- 2 John 1:3
- 2 John 1:4
- 2 John 1:9
- Jude 1:1
- Revelation 1:6
- Revelation 3:5
- Revelation 3:21
- Revelation 14:1
Words derived from G3962
Ἀντίπας G493
Antípas — Antipas
ἀπάτωρ G540
apátōr — fatherless
Κλεόπας G2810
Kleópas — Cleopas
πατραλῴας G3964
patralṓias — patricide
πατριά G3965
patriá — family line
πατρικός G3967
patrikós — paternal
Πατροβᾶς G3969
Patrobâs — Patrobas
πατροπαράδοτος G3970
patroparádotos — from forefathers
πατρῷος G3971
patrōios — ancestral
Σώπατρος G4986
Sṓpatros — Sopater