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Strong's #3962: pater (pronounced pat-ayr')

apparently a primary word; a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote):--father, parent.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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patēr

1) generator or male ancestor

1a) either the nearest ancestor: father of the corporeal nature, natural fathers, both parents

1b) a more remote ancestor, the founder of a family or tribe, progenitor of a people, forefather: so Abraham is called, Jacob and David

1b1) fathers, i.e. ancestors, forefathers, founders of a nation

1c) one advanced in years, a senior

2) metaphorically

2a) the originator and transmitter of anything

2a1) the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself

2a2) one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds

2b) one who stands in a father' s place and looks after another in a paternal way

2c) a title of honour

2c1) teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received

2c2) the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others

3) God is called the Father

3a) of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler

3b) of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector

3b1) of spiritual beings and of all men

3c) of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

3d) the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature

3d1) by Jesus Christ himself

3d2) by the apostles

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: apparently a root word

Citing in TDNT: 5:945, 805




Usage:

This word is used 423 times:

Matthew 20:23: "it is prepared of my Father."
Matthew 21:31: "did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first."
Matthew 23:9: "call no man your father upon the earth: for"
Matthew 23:9: "one is your Father, which is in heaven."
Matthew 23:30: "the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers"
Matthew 23:32: "then the measure of your fathers."
Matthew 24:36: "of heaven, but my Father only."
Matthew 25:34: "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared"
Matthew 26:29: "with you in my Father's kingdom."
Matthew 26:39: "and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,"
Matthew 26:42: "and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may"
Matthew 26:53: "I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me"
Matthew 28:19: "the name of the Father, and of the Son, and"
Mark 1:20: "and they left their father Zebedee in the ship"
Mark 5:40: "when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the"
Mark 7:10: "said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, whoso curseth"
Mark 7:10: "thy mother; and, whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:"
Mark 7:11: "If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say,"
Mark 7:12: "to do aught for his father or his mother;"
Mark 8:38: "in the glory of his Father with the holy"
Mark 9:21: "And he asked his father, How long is it ago since"
Mark 9:24: "And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said"
Mark 10:7: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and"
Mark 10:19: "not, Honor thy father and mother."
Mark 10:29: "or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife,"
Mark 11:10: "be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name"
Mark 11:25: "any: that your Father also which is in heaven"
Mark 11:26: "forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive"
Mark 13:12: "to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up"
Mark 13:32: "Son, but the Father."
Mark 14:36: "And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away"
Mark 15:21: "out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to"
Luke 1:17: "of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient"
Luke 1:32: "the throne of his father David:"
Luke 1:55: "he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed"
Luke 1:59: "the name of his father."
Luke 1:62: "And they made signs to his father, how he would have him"
Luke 1:67: "And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and"
Luke 1:72: "the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy"
Luke 1:73: "he swore to our father Abraham,"
Luke 2:48: "with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing."
Luke 2:49: "be about my Father's business?"
Luke 3:8: "yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That"
Luke 6:23: "in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets."
Luke 6:26: "so did their fathers to the false prophets."
Luke 6:36: "merciful, as your Father also is merciful."
Luke 8:51: "and John, and the father and the mother"
Luke 9:26: "in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy"
Luke 9:42: "child, and delivered him again to his father."
Luke 9:59: "to go and bury my father."









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