Patris πατρίς

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Patris
πατρίς
Transliterationpatris
Strong's numberG3968
LanguageGreek
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossfatherland
Occurrences8 in 8 verses
Most frequent inMatthew (2)

Patris (Greek πατρίς, Strong's G3968) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “fatherland”. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

πατρίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(πατήρ), [in LXX chiefly for מוֹלֶדֶת ;]
prop. poët. fern. of πάτριος, of one's fathers; as subst., ἡ π. = πάτρα, fatherland, country, home, native place: Act.18:27, WH, mg., Heb.11:14; of one's own town, Mat.13:54, 57, Mrk.6:1, 4, Luk.4:23-24, Jhn.4:44.†
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcountry (8)
BSBhometown (6), country of their own (1)

Verses

Every verse with Patris, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Hebrews

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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