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:
John 5:20: "For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth"
John 5:21: "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and"
John 5:22: "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed"
John 5:23: "even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son"
John 5:23: "honoreth not the Father which hath sent him."
John 5:26: "For as the Father hath life in himself;"
John 5:30: "the will of the Father which hath sent me."
John 5:36: "works which the Father hath given me to finish,"
John 5:36: "me, that the Father hath sent me."
John 5:37: "And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of"
John 5:43: "am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me"
John 5:45: "you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses,"
John 6:27: "him hath God the Father sealed."
John 6:31: "Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as"
John 6:32: "heaven; but my Father giveth you the true"
John 6:37: "All that the Father giveth me shall come to"
John 6:39: "this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that"
John 6:42: "son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?"
John 6:44: "me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him:"
John 6:45: "hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me."
John 6:46: "any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God,"
John 6:46: "he hath seen the Father."
John 6:49: "Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and"
John 6:57: "As the living Father hath sent me, and I live"
John 6:57: "live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he"
John 6:58: "not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead:"
John 6:65: "given unto him of my Father."
John 7:22: "Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day"
John 8:16: "I and the Father that sent me."
John 8:18: "myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness"
John 8:19: "Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know"
John 8:19: "me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known"
John 8:19: "me, ye should have known my Father also."
John 8:27: "he spake to them of the Father."
John 8:28: "but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things."
John 8:29: "with me: the Father hath not left me alone;"
John 8:38: "I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which"
John 8:38: "seen with your father."
John 8:39: "Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If"
John 8:41: "the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We"
John 8:41: "fornication; we have one Father, even God."
John 8:42: "God were your Father, ye would love me: for"
John 8:44: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the"
John 8:44: "the lusts of your father ye will do. He was"
John 8:44: "a liar, and the father of it."
John 8:49: "but I honor my Father, and ye do dishonor me."
John 8:53: "thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and"
John 8:54: "nothing: it is my Father that honoreth me; of whom ye"
John 8:56: "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day:"
John 10:15: "As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the"
