πατήρ | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

πατήρ, πατρός, ὁ

Definition

father

Erasmian

Modern

Root

πατρ

Frequency

413

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 14:21	The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc), and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
John 14:23	Jesus answered him, saying, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling place with him.
John 14:24	The one who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word you are hearing is not mine, but is from the Father’s (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc) who sent me.
John 14:26	But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) will send in my name, will instruct you regarding all things, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.
John 14:28	You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc), for the Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) is greater than I.
John 14:31	but so the world may know that I love the Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc), I do exactly as the Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) commanded me. Rise up, let us go from this place!
John 15:1	“I am the true vine, and my Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) is the vine-grower.
John 15:8	My Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) is glorified in this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
John 15:9	As the Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) has loved me, I have also loved you; abide in my love.
John 15:10	If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc) commandments and abide in his love.
John 15:15	No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from my Father (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc) I have made known to you.
John 15:16	You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that the Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc) may give you whatever you ask in my name.
John 15:23	The one who hates me hates my Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc) also.
John 15:24	If I had not done among them the works that no one else had done, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen the works and have hated both me and my Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc).
John 15:26	“But when the Paraclete comes, whom I will send to you from the Father (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc), the Spirit of truth who comes forth from the Father (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc), he will bear witness about me.
John 16:3	And these things they will do because they have not known the Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc) nor me.
John 16:10	in regard to righteousness, because I am going away to the Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc), and you will see me no longer;
John 16:15	All that the Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) has is mine; that is why I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
John 16:17	Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc)
John 16:23	On that day you will question me about nothing. I tell you the solemn truth: whatever you ask of the Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc) in my name he will give to you.
John 16:25	“I have told you these things using veiled language. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in veiled language but will tell you plainly about the Father (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc).
John 16:26	In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying to you that I will intercede with the Father (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc) on your behalf;
John 16:27	for the Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came forth from God.
John 16:28	I came forth from the Father (patros \| πατρός \| gen sg masc) and have entered into the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” (patera \| πατέρα \| acc sg masc)
John 16:32	Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own place, and you will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father (patēr \| πατήρ \| nom sg masc) is with me.