πατρῷος
patrōios · ancestral
Greek word · Strong’s number G3971 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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patrōios (πατρῷος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ancestral”.
Of one's fathers, received from one's ancestors.
How to say it
pa·trōi·os
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Received from one's forebears.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- Acts 22:3
“I am a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today.
- Acts 24:14
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a party, in this way I serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the Prophets,
- Acts 28:17
And it happened after three days that he called together the leading men of the Jews; and when they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, was handed over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,