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patēr G3962

πατήρ (patēr) means “father” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

πατήρ Greek · G3962 413 tagged occurrences in 365 verses

Pronunciation guide: pat-ayr' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G3962

πατήρ · patēr · father

πατήρ, πατρός, -τρί, τέρα, [in LXX chiefly and very frequently for אָב ;] a father; 1. prop., (a) of the male parent: Mat.2:22, Luk.1:17, Jhn.4:53; anarth., Heb.12:7 (M, Pr., 82 f.); pl., of both parents (cl.), Heb.11:23; οἱ π. τ. σαρκός, Heb.12:9; (b) of a forefather or ancestor (in cl. usually in pl.; Hom., al.): Mat.3:9, Luk.1:73, Jhn.8:39, al.; pl., Mat.23:30, 32 Luk.6:23, 26 Jhn.4:20, 1Co.10:1, al. 2. Metaphorical, (a) of an author, originator, or archetype (= αἴτιος, ἀρχηγός, etc.; Pind., Plat., al.): Jhn.8:41-44, Rom.4:11, 12 16. (b) as a title of respect or honour, used of seniors, teachers and others in a position of responsible authority (Jdg.17:10, 2Ki.2:12, Pro.1:8, al.): Mat.23:9 Act.7:2 22:1, 1Jn.2:13. 3. Of God (as in cl. of Zeus) as Father; (a) of created things: τ. φώτων, Jas.1:17; (b) of all sentient beings: Eph.3:14, 15 Heb.12:9; (with) of men, esp. those in covenant relation with Him (freq in OT and later Jewish lit.; see Dalman, Words, 184ff.): Mat.6:4, Luk.6:36, Jhn.4:21, Jas.3:9, al.; ὁ π. ὁ ἐν (τ.) οὐρανοῖς, Mat.5:16, Mrk.11:25; ὁ π. ὁ οὐράνιος, Mat.6:14 15:13; esp. in the Epp., of Christians: Rom.8:15, 2Co.6:18, Gal.4:6, Eph.2:18 4:6, 1Jn.2:1; with genitive qual., τ. οἰκτιρμῶν, 2Co.1:3; τ. δοξῆς, Eph.1:17; (d) of Christ (Dalman, Words, 190 ff.); (α) by our Lord himself: ὁ π., Mat.11:25-27, Luk.10:2, 22 Jhn.5:20-23, al.; ὁ π. μου, Mat.11:27, al.; ὁ ἐν τ. οὐρανοῖς, Mat.7:11, al.; ὁ οὐράνιος, Mat.15:13; vocat., Jhn.11:41 12:27, 28 17:1, 5, 11, 20, 25 (cf. Abbott, JG., 96 f.); (β) by Apostles: Jhn.1:14 (anarth.; see M, Pr., l.with), Rom.15:6, 2Co.1:3 11:31, Eph.1:3, Col.1:3, Heb.1:5, 1Pe.1:3, Rev.1:6 (cf. Westc., Epp. Jo., 27-34). (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior.

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How translators render G3962

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
father 305
fathers 62
the father 19
a father 7
patriarchs 4
his father 3
as our father 2
ancestor 1
by his father 1
fathers did 1
forefather 1
forefathers 1
he is also the father 1
him 1
his 1
of the fathers 1
parents 1
them 1
with his father 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
father 193
the father 122
fathers 57
of 18
of the father 10
to 9
the fathers 7
a father 5
o father 3
o 2
unto 2
unto the fathers 2
by 1
for 1
his father 1
my father 1
of his father 1
of the fathers 1
our fathers 1
parents 1
that is a father 1
that the father 1
to his father 1
unto the father 1
with 1
with the father 1

Verses containing G3962

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  1. John 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

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  2. John 14:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

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  3. John 14:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

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  4. John 14:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

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  5. John 14:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

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  6. John 14:31 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

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  7. John 15:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.

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  8. John 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

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  9. John 15:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

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  10. John 15:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

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  11. John 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

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  12. John 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

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  13. John 15:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

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  14. John 15:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

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  15. John 15:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

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  16. John 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

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  17. John 16:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

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  18. John 16:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

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  19. John 16:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

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  20. John 16:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

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  21. John 16:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

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  22. John 16:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

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  23. John 16:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

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  24. John 16:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

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  25. John 16:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

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  26. John 17:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.

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  27. John 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

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  28. John 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

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  29. John 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

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  30. John 17:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

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  31. John 17:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.

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  32. John 18:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Put your sword back in its sheath!” Jesus said to Peter. “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?”

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  33. John 20:17 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    “Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

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  34. John 20:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”

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  35. Acts 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.

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  36. Acts 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

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  37. Acts 2:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.

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  38. Acts 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

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  39. Acts 3:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

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  40. Acts 4:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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  41. Acts 5:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.

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  42. Acts 7:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

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  43. Acts 7:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.

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  44. Acts 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

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  45. Acts 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.

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  46. Acts 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.

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  47. Acts 7:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

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  48. Acts 7:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

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  49. Acts 7:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

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  50. Acts 7:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.

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