Greek adjective · G3971
πατρῷος
patroiospat-ro'-os
ancestral
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: patrōios
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3971is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3971
paternal, i.e. hereditary
The King James renders it: of fathers.
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
patroios is rendered "ancestral". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 22:3“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
Acts 22:3πατρῴου
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- of our Fathers2
- ancestral1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| πατρίς | patris | fatherland | Uses8 |
| πατριάρχης | patriarches | patriarch | Uses4 |
| πατριά | patria | family line | Uses3 |
| πατρικός | patrikos | paternal | Uses1 |
| πατραλῴας | patraloias | patricide | Uses1 |
| πατροπαράδοτος | patroparadotos | from forefathers | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- πατρῴοις1
- πατρῴου1
- πατρῴῳ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1A-DPN
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1A-DSM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1A-GSM-T
Acts
three uses
“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but raised in this city. I was educated at the feet of Gamaliel in strict conformity to the law of our fathers. I am just as zealous for God as any of you here today.
- πατρῴουpatroouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of our Fathers
I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
- πατρῴῳpatrooadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: ancestral
After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.
- πατρῴοιςpatrooisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: of our fathers
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.