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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. Acts 7:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.

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  2. Acts 7:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

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  3. Acts 7:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

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  4. Acts 7:45 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

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  5. Acts 7:51 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

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  6. Acts 7:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

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  7. Acts 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

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  8. Acts 13:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

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  9. Acts 13:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

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  10. Acts 15:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?

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  11. Acts 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.

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  12. Acts 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

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  13. Acts 22:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”

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  14. Acts 22:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One and to hear His voice.

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  15. Acts 26:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

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  16. Acts 28:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.

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  17. Acts 28:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

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  18. Romans 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  19. Romans 4:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

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  20. Romans 4:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

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  21. Romans 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

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  22. Romans 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

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  23. Romans 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

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  24. Romans 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

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  25. Romans 8:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

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  26. Romans 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

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  27. Romans 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

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  28. Romans 11:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.

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  29. Romans 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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  30. Romans 15:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,

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  31. 1 Corinthians 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  32. 1 Corinthians 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

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  33. 1 Corinthians 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

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  34. 1 Corinthians 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

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  35. 1 Corinthians 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.

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  36. 1 Corinthians 15:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.

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  37. 2 Corinthians 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  38. 2 Corinthians 1:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

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  39. 2 Corinthians 6:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”

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  40. 2 Corinthians 11:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.

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  41. Galatians 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead—

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  42. Galatians 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

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  43. Galatians 1:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

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  44. Galatians 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.

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  45. Galatians 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

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  46. Ephesians 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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  47. Ephesians 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

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  48. Ephesians 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

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  49. Ephesians 2:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

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  50. Ephesians 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    ... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,

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