Lexical Summary patrōos: of one's fathers, received from one's fathers Original Word: πατρῷοςTransliteration: patrōos Phonetic Spelling: (pat-ro'-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: of one's fathers, received from one's fathers Meaning: of one's fathers, received from one's fathers Strong's Concordance paternalFrom pater; paternal, i.e. Hereditary -- of fathers. see GREEK pater Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3971: πατροωςπατροως (poetic and Ionic πατρωιος), πατρωα, πατροων, (πατήρ), from Homer down, "descending from father to son or from ancestors to their posterity as it were by right of inheritance; received from the fathers": νόμος, Acts 22:3 (2 Macc. 6:1; Aelian v. h. 6, 10); Θεός, Acts 24:14 (4 Macc. 12:19; and often in Greek writings θεοί πατροωι, Ζεύς πατροως etc.); τοῖς ἔθεσι τοῖς πατροωις, Acts 28:17 (Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho, c. 63; πατροως ἔθος, Aelian v. h. 7, 19 variant). |