Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

πατήρ

Vocabulary form: 
pathvr, patrovV, oJ
Definition: 

father

Frequency: 
413
GK: 
4252
Root: 
patr
Cognates: 

The patriarch (patriavrchV) is the father and head of a family or tribe.

Mnemonics: 

My father is my padre.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Help us to praise,
Father all glorious,
o'er all victorious.

Notes: 

See the declension pattern of this word in the Appendix.

Biblical Concordance

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) is not in him.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world — the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride of possession — is not from the Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) but from the world.
1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) and the Son.
1 John 2:23 No one who denies the Son has the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc). The one who confesses the Son has the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) also.
1 John 2:24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc).
1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has given to us, that we should be called children of God — and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.
2 John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc), in truth and in love.
2 John 1:4 I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children walking in the truth, just as we received commandment from the Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc).
2 John 1:9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) and the Son.
Jude 1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, who are loved in God the Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc) and kept for Jesus Christ:
Revelation 1:6 and has made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc), to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 2:28 even as I myself have received authority from my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc). I will also give him the morning star.
Revelation 3:5 The one who conquers will, in this way, be dressed in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the Book of Life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) and before his angels.
Revelation 3:21 As for the one who conquers, to him I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat with my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) on his throne.
Revelation 14:1 Then I looked, and behold, I saw a Lamb standing on Mount Zion; and with him were one hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) name written on their foreheads.

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