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:
Acts 7:45: "Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Joshua"
Acts 7:45: "before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;"
Acts 7:51: "Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye."
Acts 7:52: "prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before"
Acts 13:17: "of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people"
Acts 13:32: "promise which was made unto the fathers,"
Acts 13:36: "was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:"
Acts 15:10: "which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?"
Acts 16:1: "which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:"
Acts 16:3: "all that his father was a Greek."
Acts 22:1: "Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now"
Acts 22:14: "The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his"
Acts 26:6: "of God unto our fathers:"
Acts 28:8: "And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever"
Acts 28:25: "the prophet unto our fathers,"
Romans 1:7: "from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 4:1: "then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?"
Romans 4:11: "he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised;"
Romans 4:12: "And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only,"
Romans 4:12: "in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised."
Romans 4:16: "the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,"
Romans 4:17: "it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom"
Romans 4:18: "hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken,"
Romans 6:4: "the glory of the Father, even so we also"
Romans 8:15: "whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
Romans 9:5: "Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh"
Romans 9:10: "by one, even by our father Isaac;"
Romans 11:28: "but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes."
Romans 15:6: "glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans 15:8: "the promises made unto the fathers:"
1 Corinthians 1:3: "from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Corinthians 4:15: "yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus"
1 Corinthians 5:1: "that one should have his father's wife."
1 Corinthians 8:6: "there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and"
1 Corinthians 10:1: "how that all our fathers were under the cloud,"
1 Corinthians 15:24: "kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule"
2 Corinthians 1:2: "from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ."
2 Corinthians 1:3: "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"
2 Corinthians 1:3: "Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all"
2 Corinthians 6:18: "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be"
2 Corinthians 11:31: "The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"
Galatians 1:1: "Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)"
Galatians 1:3: "peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus"
Galatians 1:4: "of God and our Father:"
Galatians 4:2: "the time appointed of the father."
Galatians 4:6: "hearts, crying, Abba, Father."
Ephesians 1:2: "from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ."
Ephesians 1:3: "be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"
Ephesians 1:17: "Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit"
Ephesians 2:18: "Spirit unto the Father."
