Lexical Summary
patroparadotos: handed down from fathers, ancestral
Original Word: πατροπαράδοτος
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: patroparadotos
Pronunciation: pat-rop-ar-ad'-ot-os
Phonetic Spelling: (pat-rop-ar-ad'-ot-os)
KJV: received by tradition from fathers
Word Origin: [from G3962 (πατήρ - father) and a derivative of G3860 (παραδίδωμι - delivered) (in the sense of handing over or down)]
1. traditionary
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
inherited
From pater and a derivative of paradidomi (in the sense of handing over or down); traditionary -- received by tradition from fathers.
see GREEK pater
see GREEK paradidomi
HELPS Word-studies
3970 patroparádotos (from 3962 /patḗr, "father" and 3860 /paradídōmi, "pass something on") – properly, tradition, handed down from forefathers; the "traditional" way of doing something, i.e. as passed down from ancestors.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3970: πατροπαράδοτοςπατροπαράδοτος,
πατροπαραδοτον (
πατήρ and
παραδίδωμι),
handed down from one's fathers or ancestors:
1 Peter 1:18 (
Buttmann, 91 (79)). (
Diodorus 4,8; 15, 74; 17,4;
Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 5, 48; Theophil. ad Autol. 2, 34;
Eusebius, h. c. 4, 23, 10; 10, 4, 16.)
