G3971 – patroos – πατρῷος – of fathers
- Strong’s ID:
- G3971
- Greek Word:
- πατρῷος
- Transliteration:
- patroos
- Pronunciation:
- pat-ro’-os
- Part of Speech:
- adjective
- Usage Count:
- 3
- Search:
- Find “patroos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G3962; paternal, i.e. hereditary:—of fathers.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) descending from father to son or from ancestors to their posterity as it were by right of inheritance
2) received from the fathers
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.