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:
1 John 1:3: "fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son"
1 John 2:1: "an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:"
1 John 2:13: "I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning."
1 John 2:13: "because ye have known the Father."
1 John 2:14: "I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning."
1 John 2:15: "the love of the Father is not in him."
1 John 2:16: "not of the Father, but is of the"
1 John 2:22: "is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son."
1 John 2:23: "the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath"
1 John 2:23: "Son hath the Father also."
1 John 2:24: "and in the Father."
1 John 3:1: "what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called"
1 John 4:14: "do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior"
2 John 1:3: "and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus"
2 John 1:3: "the Son of the Father, in truth and love."
2 John 1:4: "a commandment from the Father."
2 John 1:9: "hath both the Father and the Son."
Jude 1:1: "to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ,"
Revelation 1:6: "unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion"
Revelation 2:27: "received of my Father."
Revelation 3:5: "name before my Father, and before his angels."
Revelation 3:21: "am set down with my Father in his throne."
Revelation 14:1: "a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name"
