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 10:15: "me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my"
John 10:17: "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down"
John 10:18: "This commandment have I received of my Father."
John 10:25: "do in my Father's name, they bear witness of"
John 10:29: "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all;"
John 10:29: "to pluck them out of my Father's hand."
John 10:30: "I and my Father are one."
John 10:32: "you from my Father; for which of those works"
John 10:36: "ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into"
John 10:37: "the works of my Father, believe me not."
John 10:38: "believe, that the Father is in me, and I in"
John 11:41: "his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard"
John 12:26: "any man serve me, him will my Father honor."
John 12:27: "and what shall I say? Father, save me from this"
John 12:28: " Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from"
John 12:49: "of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave"
John 12:50: "therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak."
John 13:1: "world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in"
John 13:3: "knowing that the Father had given all things into his"
John 14:2: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not"
John 14:6: "cometh unto the Father, but by me."
John 14:7: "me, ye should have known my Father also: and from"
John 14:8: "show us the Father, and it sufficeth us."
John 14:9: "me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou"
John 14:9: "then, Show us the Father?"
John 14:10: "I am in the Father, and the Father in"
John 14:10: "Father, and the Father in me? the words"
John 14:10: "myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he"
John 14:11: "I am in the Father, and the Father in"
John 14:11: "Father, and the Father in me: or else believe"
John 14:12: "I go unto my Father."
John 14:13: "that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the"
John 14:16: "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another"
John 14:20: "I am in my Father, and ye in me,"
John 14:21: "shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,"
John 14:23: "words: and my Father will love him, and we will come"
John 14:24: "not mine, but the Father's which sent me."
John 14:26: "Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,"
John 14:28: "I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father"
John 14:28: "the Father: for my Father is greater than I."
John 14:31: "that I love the Father; and as the Father"
John 14:31: "and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do."
John 15:1: "vine, and my Father is the husbandman."
John 15:8: "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much"
John 15:9: "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:"
John 15:10: "I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in"
John 15:15: "all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."
John 15:16: "whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name,"
John 15:23: "me hateth my Father also."
John 15:24: "hated both me and my"
