Vocabulary Form
πατήρ, πατρός, ὁ
Definition

father

Erasmian
Modern
Root
πατρ
Frequency
413
GK
4252
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.

Song
Notes

See the declension pattern of this word in the Appendix.

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he went into the region of Galilee.
Matthew 3:9 and do not presume you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’ (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc); for I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Matthew 4:21 And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc), preparing their nets. And he called to them.
Matthew 4:22 Immediately they left the boat and their father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) and followed him.
Matthew 5:16 Let your light shine like that before others, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) who is in heaven.”
Matthew 5:45 so that you may be sons of your Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) who is in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:48 You, however, are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) is perfect.
Matthew 6:1 “Take care not to perform your good deeds before others so as to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward from your Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc) who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:4 so that your almsgiving may be in secret; and your Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc) who is in secret; and your Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:8 Do not be like them, for your Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) knows what you need before you ask him.
Matthew 6:9 Pray then like this: ‘Our Father (pater | πάτερ | voc sg masc) in heaven, may your name be revered,
Matthew 6:14 “For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) will also forgive you;
Matthew 6:15 but if you do not forgive others their offenses, neither will your Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) forgive your offenses.
Matthew 6:18 so that you will not appear to others as fasting, but by your Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc) who is in secret; and your Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) feeds them. Are you not more valuable than they?
Matthew 6:32 for the Gentiles pursue all these things — for your heavenly Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) knows that you need them all.
Matthew 7:11 If then you, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) in heaven.
Matthew 8:21 Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.” (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc)
Matthew 10:20 For it will not be you speaking but the Spirit of your Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) speaking through you.
Matthew 10:21 “Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) his child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.
Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc).
Matthew 10:32 So everyone who will acknowledge me before others, I will acknowledge before my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) who is in heaven;
Matthew 10:33 but whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) who is in heaven.