STRONGS G3971:
πατροως (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).
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