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 15:24: "hated both me and my"
John 15:26: "proceedeth from the Father, he"
John 15:26: "proceedeth from the Father, he"
John 15:26: "unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which"
John 16:3: "they have not known the Father, nor me."
John 16:10: "I go to my Father, and ye see me no"
John 16:15: "All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore"
John 16:16: "go to the Father."
John 16:17: "Because I go to"
John 16:17: "Because I go to"
John 16:23: "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name,"
John 16:25: "plainly of the Father."
John 16:26: "I will pray the Father for you:"
John 16:27: "For the Father himself loveth you, because ye"
John 16:28: "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the"
John 16:28: "go to the Father."
John 16:32: "alone, because the Father is with me."
John 17:1: "heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify"
John 17:5: "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self"
John 17:11: "to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name"
John 17:21: "one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in"
John 17:24: " Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be"
John 17:25: "O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee:"
John 18:11: "the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink"
John 20:17: "unto them, I ascend unto my"
John 20:17: "I ascend unto my Father, and"
John 20:17: "ascended to my Father: but go to my"
John 20:17: "unto them, I ascend unto my"
John 20:17: "I ascend unto my Father, and"
John 20:21: "Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I"
Acts 1:4: "the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me."
Acts 1:7: "the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."
Acts 2:33: "having received of the Father the promise of the Holy"
Acts 3:13: "the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus;"
Acts 3:22: "said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God"
Acts 3:25: "made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And"
Acts 5:30: "The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye"
Acts 7:2: "Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory"
Acts 7:2: "of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia,"
Acts 7:4: "Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into"
Acts 7:11: "affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance."
Acts 7:12: "Egypt, he sent out our fathers first."
Acts 7:14: "Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his"
Acts 7:15: "he, and our fathers,"
Acts 7:19: "kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children,"
Acts 7:20: "nourished up in his father's house three months:"
Acts 7:32: "am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and"
Acts 7:38: "Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles"
Acts 7:39: "To whom our fathers would not obey, but"
Acts 7:44: "Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the"
