For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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πατήρ
Vocabulary form:
pathvr, patrovV, oJ
Definition:
father
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
413
GK:
4252
Root:
patr
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.
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. |
| 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. |