πατήρ patḗr

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: father, parent

Derivation: apparently a primary word;

Where it is used

• Luke 23:34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
• Luke 23:46 Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.
• Luke 24:49 And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”
• John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
• John 2:16 To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
• John 3:35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
• John 4:12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
• John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
• John 4:21 “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
• John 4:23 But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
• John 4:53 Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.
• John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”
• John 5:18 Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
• John 5:19 So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
• John 5:20 The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. And to your amazement, He will show Him even greater works than these.
• John 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
• John 5:22 Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
• John 5:23 so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
• John 5:26 For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
• John 5:30 I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
• John 5:36 But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.
• John 5:37 And the Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form,
• John 5:43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.
• John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
• John 6:27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
• John 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
• John 6:32 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
• John 6:37 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
• John 6:39 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
• John 6:40 For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 6:42 They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
• John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
• John 6:46 not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
• John 6:49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
• John 6:57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
• John 6:58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”
• John 6:65 Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
• John 7:22 But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
• John 8:16 But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.
• John 8:18 I am One who testifies about Myself, and the Father, who sent Me, also testifies about Me.”
• John 8:19 “Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
• John 8:27 They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.
• John 8:28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
• John 8:29 He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
• John 8:38 I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
• John 8:39 “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
• John 8:41 You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
• John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.
• John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• John 8:49 “I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
• John 8:53 Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”
• John 8:54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory means nothing. The One who glorifies Me is My Father, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
• John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
• John 10:15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
• John 10:17 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
• John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”
• John 10:25 “I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.
• John 10:29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.