Greek noun (masculine) · G3966
πατριάρχης
patriarchespat-ree-arkh'-ace
patriarch
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: patriárchēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3966is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3966
a progenitor ("patriarch")
The King James renders it: patriarch.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
patriarches is rendered "patriarch". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 2:29Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
Acts 2:29πατριάρχου
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- patriarch2
- patriarchs2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πατριάρχαι1
- πατριάρχας1
- πατριάρχης1
- πατριάρχου1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Acts
three uses
Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- πατριάρχουpatriarchounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: patriarch
Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
- πατριάρχαςpatriarchasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: patriarchs
Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
- πατριάρχαιpatriarchainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: patriarchs
Hebrews
one use
Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder.
- πατριάρχηςpatriarchesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: patriarch
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.