Greek noun (feminine) · G3968
πατρίς
patrispat-rece'
fatherland
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: patrís
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3968is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3968
a father-land, i.e. native town; (figuratively) heavenly home
The King James renders it: (own) country.
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
patris is rendered "fatherland". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:54Coming to His hometown, He taught the people in their synagogue, and they were astonished. “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?” they asked.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Coming to His hometown, He taught the people in their synagogue, and they were astonished. “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?” they asked.
Matthew 13:54πατρίδα
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
- hometown6
- region1
- their country1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πατριάρχης | patriarches | patriarch | Uses4 |
| πατριά | patria | family line | Uses3 |
| πατρῷος | patroios | ancestral | Uses3 |
| πατρικός | patrikos | paternal | Uses1 |
| πατραλῴας | patraloias | patricide | Uses1 |
| πατροπαράδοτος | patroparadotos | from forefathers | Uses1 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- πατρίδι5
- πατρίδα3
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular5N-DSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
Matthew
two uses
Coming to His hometown, He taught the people in their synagogue, and they were astonished. “Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?” they asked.
- πατρίδαpatridanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: region
And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
- πατρίδιpatridinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: hometown
Mark
two uses
Jesus went on from there and came to His hometown, accompanied by His disciples.
- πατρίδαpatridanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: hometown
Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
- πατρίδιpatridinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: hometown
Luke
two uses
Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to Me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in Your hometown what we have heard that You did in Capernaum.’”
- πατρίδιpatridinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: hometown
Then He added, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.
- πατρίδιpatridinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: hometown
John
one use
Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.
- πατρίδιpatridinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: hometown
Hebrews
one use
Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.
- πατρίδαpatridanoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: their country
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.