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

John 3:35 The Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands.
John 4:12 Surely you are not greater than our father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) Jacob, are you, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his flocks?”
John 4:20 Our fathers (pateres | πατέρες | nom pl masc) worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem.”
John 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc) neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is here already, when true worshipers will worship the Father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc) in spirit and in truth; for indeed the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) is seeking just such people to be his worshipers.
John 4:53 Then the father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) realized that was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives,” and he became a believer, as did his entire household.
John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has been working until now, and I also am working.”
John 5:18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he not only used to break the Sabbath, but he also was calling God his own Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc), thus making himself equal with God.
John 5:19 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son is doing likewise.
John 5:20 For the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) loves the Son and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, and you will be amazed.
John 5:21 For as the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.
John 5:22 Furthermore, the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23 so that everyone should honor the Son just as they honor the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc). The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) who sent him.
John 5:26 For as the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has life in himself, so also has he granted the Son to have life in himself;
John 5:36 But I have a witness greater than that of John; for the works that the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has sent me.
John 5:37 And the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,
John 5:43 I have come in the name of my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, him you will accept.
John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc); the one who accuses you is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
John 6:27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for on him God the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has set his seal.”
John 6:31 Our fathers (pateres | πατέρες | nom pl masc) ate manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
John 6:32 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) who gives you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:37 All that the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) gives me will come to me, and anyone who comes to me I will never turn away.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc), that everyone who considers the Son and comes to believe in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:42 And they were saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.