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:
Ephesians 3:14: "my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus"
Ephesians 4:6: "One God and Father of all, who is above all,"
Ephesians 5:20: "all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord"
Ephesians 5:31: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and"
Ephesians 6:2: "Honor thy father and mother; which is the first"
Ephesians 6:4: "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up"
Ephesians 6:23: "faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
Philippians 1:2: "from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ."
Philippians 2:11: "to the glory of God the Father."
Philippians 2:22: "that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in"
Philippians 4:20: "unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever."
Colossians 1:2: "from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
Colossians 1:3: "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"
Colossians 1:12: "Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the"
Colossians 2:2: "mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;"
Colossians 3:17: "Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."
Colossians 3:21: " Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged."
1 Thessalonians 1:1: "of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ:"
1 Thessalonians 1:1: "from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Thessalonians 1:3: "of God and our Father;"
1 Thessalonians 2:11: "every one of you, as a father doth his children,"
1 Thessalonians 3:11: "himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus"
1 Thessalonians 3:13: "God, even our Father, at the coming of our"
2 Thessalonians 1:1: "in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:"
2 Thessalonians 1:2: "from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
2 Thessalonians 2:16: "God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given"
1 Timothy 1:2: "from God our Father and Jesus Christ our"
1 Timothy 5:1: "but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;"
2 Timothy 1:2: "and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our"
Titus 1:4: "and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ"
Philemon 1:3: "from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
Hebrews 1:1: "spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,"
Hebrews 1:5: "will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me"
Hebrews 3:9: "When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and"
Hebrews 7:10: "in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him."
Hebrews 8:9: "that I made with their fathers in the day when I took"
Hebrews 11:23: "three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child;"
Hebrews 12:7: "son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"
Hebrews 12:9: "Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence:"
Hebrews 12:9: "rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?"
James 1:17: "and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is"
James 1:27: "before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless"
James 2:21: "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered"
James 3:9: "Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith"
1 Peter 1:2: "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto"
1 Peter 1:3: "be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,"
1 Peter 1:17: "And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's"
2 Peter 1:17: "he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came"
2 Peter 3:4: "for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue"
1 John 1:2: "was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)"
