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Πατρόβας

Patrobas

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Patrobas’ fuller range ↓

G3969 Strong's Greek
Patrobâs Transliteration
/pat-rob'-as/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

The Greek name Πατροβας centers on the idea of “Patrobas.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Romans dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Found nowhere else but Romans 16:14. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Patrobas
Modern gloss
Patrobas
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G3969 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Romans 16:14
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Romans 16:14.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 100%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Patrobas 1×
  • American Standard Version: Patrobas 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Patrobas 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Patrobas 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3969 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Patrobas” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3969 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Patrobas” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3969 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Patrobas” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3969 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Patrobas” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Patrobas = "paternal"
  2. a certain Christian in Rome

Word origin

Derived from πατηρ (patḗr) (G3962) — father.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

Perhaps a contraction for patrobios (a compound of G3962 and G979 ); father's life ; Patrobas a Christian : - Patrobas.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3969, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

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Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Patrobas). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

A Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent salutations (Rom. 16:14).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(paternal), a Christian at Rome to whom St. Paul sends his salutation. (Romans 16:14) Like many other names mentioned in Roma 16 this was borne by at least one member of the emperor's household. Suet. Galba. 20; Martial, Ep. ii. 32, 3. (A.D. 55.)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

paternal; that pursues the steps of his father

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.

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