Word Summary
patroparadotos: handed down from one's fathers
Original Word: πατροπαράδοτοςTransliteration: patroparadotos
Phonetic Spelling: (pat-rop-ar-ad'-ot-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: handed down from one's fathers
Meaning: handed down from one's fathers
Strong's 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
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.)