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Strong’s G3962 · Greek

πατήρ

patḗr · pat-ayr'

Origin apparently a primary word;

Meaning a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote)

In the King James Version father, parent.

In 372 verses of the King James Version

1–50 of 372

  1. Matthew 2:22But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
  2. Matthew 3:9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
  3. Matthew 4:21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
  4. Matthew 4:22And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.
  5. Matthew 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
  6. Matthew 5:45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
  7. Matthew 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
  8. Matthew 6:1Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
  9. Matthew 6:4That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
  10. Matthew 6:6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
  11. Matthew 6:8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
  12. Matthew 6:9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
  13. Matthew 6:14For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
  14. Matthew 6:15But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
  15. Matthew 6:18That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
  16. Matthew 6:26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
  17. Matthew 6:32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
  18. Matthew 7:11If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
  19. Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
  20. Matthew 8:21And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
  21. Matthew 10:20For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
  22. Matthew 10:21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
  23. Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
  24. Matthew 10:32Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
  25. Matthew 10:33But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
  26. Matthew 10:35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
  27. Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  28. Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
  29. Matthew 11:26Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
  30. Matthew 11:27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
  31. Matthew 12:50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  32. Matthew 13:43Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
  33. Matthew 15:4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
  34. Matthew 15:5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
  35. Matthew 15:6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
  36. Matthew 15:13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
  37. Matthew 16:17And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
  38. Matthew 16:27For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
  39. Matthew 18:10Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
  40. Matthew 18:14Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
  41. Matthew 18:19Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
  42. Matthew 18:35So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
  43. Matthew 19:5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
  44. Matthew 19:19Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
  45. Matthew 19:29And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
  46. Matthew 20:23And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
  47. Matthew 21:31Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
  48. Matthew 23:9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
  49. Matthew 23:30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
  50. Matthew 23:32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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