Greek noun (feminine) · G3994
πενθερά
pentherapen-ther-ah'
mother-in-law
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pentherá
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3994is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3994
a wife's mother
The King James renders it: mother in law, wife's mother.
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
penthera is rendered "mother-in-law". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:14When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.
Matthew 8:14πενθερὰν
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
- mother-in-law5
- the mother-in-law1
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 6, 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
- πενθερὰ3
- πενθεράν1
- πενθερὰν1
- πενθερᾶς1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Matthew
two uses
When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.
- πενθερὰνpentherannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law
For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- πενθερᾶςpentherasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law
Mark
one use
Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever, and they promptly told Jesus about her.
- πενθερὰpentheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: the mother-in-law
Luke
three uses
After Jesus had left the synagogue, He went to the home of Simon, whose mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever. So they appealed to Jesus on her behalf,
- πενθερὰpentheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law
They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
- πενθερὰpentheranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law
- πενθεράνpentherannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: mother-in-law
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.