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 17:1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father (pater | πάτερ | voc sg masc), the hour has come; glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you,
John 17:5 and now, Father (pater | πάτερ | voc sg masc), glorify me at your side with the glory that I had with you before the world began.
John 17:11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am on my way to you. Holy Father (pater | πάτερ | voc sg masc), keep them in your name, the name that you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
John 17:21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father (pater | πάτερ | voc sg masc), are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
John 17:24 Father (pater | πάτερ | voc sg masc), I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, so they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
John 17:25 Righteous Father (pater | πάτερ | voc sg masc), although the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
John 18:11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has given me?”
John 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc). But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) and your Father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc), to my God and your God.’”
John 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has sent me, I also am sending you.”
Acts 1:4 While he was with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to await the promise of the Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc), which, he said, “you heard from me;
Acts 1:7 But he said to them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father (patēr | πατήρ | nom sg masc) has set by his own authority.
Acts 2:33 So then, exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you are both seeing and hearing.
Acts 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — the God of our fathers (paterōn | πατέρων | gen pl masc) — glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
Acts 3:25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers (pateras | πατέρας | acc pl masc), saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’
Acts 4:25 who through the mouth of our father (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) David, your servant, by the Holy Spirit did say, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples devise vain schemes?
Acts 5:30 The God of our fathers (paterōn | πατέρων | gen pl masc) raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
Acts 7:2 And Stephen said: “My brothers and fathers (pateres | πατέρες | voc pl masc), hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father (patri | πατρί | dat sg masc) Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Acts 7:4 Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.
Acts 7:11 Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great affliction, and our fathers (pateres | πατέρες | nom pl masc) could find no food.
Acts 7:12 But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent our fathers (pateras | πατέρας | acc pl masc) out on their first visit.
Acts 7:14 Then Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father (patera | πατέρα | acc sg masc) and all his relatives, seventy-five persons.
Acts 7:15 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he himself died there, along with our fathers (pateres | πατέρες | nom pl masc),
Acts 7:19 He took advantage of our nation and mistreated our fathers (pateras | πατέρας | acc pl masc), making them expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.
Acts 7:20 At which time Moses was born, and he was beautiful before God. He was brought up for three months in his father’s (patros | πατρός | gen sg masc) house;
Acts 7:32 ‘I am the God of your forefathers (paterōn | πατέρων | gen pl masc), the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.