Strong's Concordance patróos: of one's fathers, received from one's fathers Original Word: πατρῷος, α, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: patróos Phonetic Spelling: (pat-ro'-os) Short Definition: hereditary Definition: hereditary, received from fathers. 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). From pater; paternal, i.e. Hereditary -- of fathers. see GREEK pater Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 39713 Occurrences πατρῴῳ — 1 Occ. πατρῴοις — 1 Occ. πατρῴου — 1 Occ. Acts 22:3 Adj-GMS GRK: ἀκρίβειαν τοῦ πατρῴου νόμου ζηλωτὴς NAS: to the law of our fathers, being KJV: of the law of the fathers, and was INT: exactness of the ancestral law a zealous one Acts 24:14 Adj-DMS Acts 28:17 Adj-DNP |