πατρίς, πατρίδος, ἡ (πατήρ), one's native country; a. as in classical Greek from Homer down, one's fatherland, one's (own) country: Joh_4:44 (cf. γάρ, II. 1); equivalent to a fixed abode (home (R. V. a country of their own), opposed to the land where one παρεπιδημει), Heb_11:14. b. one's native (own) place i. e. city: Mat_13:54; Mat_13:57; Mar_6:1; Mar_6:4; Luk_4:23,(24); so Philo, leg. ad Gaium § 36 (ἐστι δέ μοι Ἱεροσόλυμα πατρίς); Josephus, Antiquities 10, 7, 3; 6, 4, 6; ᾧ πατρίς ἡ Ἀκυληια ἦν, Herodian, 8, 3, 2 (1 edition, Bekker).

πατρίς patris 8x one s native place, country, or city, Mat_13:54 ; Mat_13:57 ; Mar_6:1 ; Mar_6:4 ; Luk_4:23-24 ; Joh_4:44 ; a heavenly country, Heb_11:14

πατρίς , -ίδος , ἡ ( < πατήρ ), [in LXX chiefly for H4138 ;] prop . poλt. fern. of πάτριος , of one's fathers; as subst ., ἡ Papyri = πάτρα , fatherland, country, home, native place: Act_18:27 , WH , mg ., Heb_11:14 ; of one's own town, Mat_13:54 ; Mat_13:57 , Mar_6:1 ; Mar_6:4 , Luk_4:23-24 , Joh_4:44 .†

πατρίς [page 499] native place, native town rather than native land (cf. Mat_13:54 , Luk_4:23 f. ; Field Notes , p. 10) : BGU IV. 1140 .7 (B.C. 4) κινδυνεύω οὐ μόνον τῆς ἰδίας πατρίδος στερηθῆναι ἀλλὰ . . ., P Ryl II. 153 .3 (a Will A.D. 138 161) the testator bequeaths certain privileges to a freedman ἐπιμ̣[έ ]νοντι ὡς προγέγραπται τῇ πατρίδι μου , while he remains as aforesaid in my native city (Edd.), P Oxy VIII. 1102 .10 ( c. A.D. 146) an instruction to a man τὸ τέταρτον τῆς οὐσίας εἰσενενκεῖ <ν > ὑπὲρ τῆς γυμνασ [ι ]αρχίας τ̣η̣̑ α̣ὐ̣τοῦ πατρίδι , to contribute the fourth part of the estate to his native city for the gymnasiarchy, P Ryl II. 77 .34 (A.D. 192) πειθόμενος τ̣ῆ ἐμαυτοῦ πατρίδι ἐπιδέχομαι στεφα [νη ]φόρον ἐξηγητείαν , obedient to my native city, I offer to undertake the office of a crowned exegetes (Edd.). Cf. also the important rescript of Caracalla, P Giss I. 40 ii. 9 (A.D. 215) permitting those who had been banished to return to their own homes ὑποστρεφε̣τωσαν πάντες εἰς τὰς πατρίδας τὰς ἰδίας , and the epitaph of Avircius Marcellus, Bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia about A.D. 170, which closes with the warning that whoever disturbs his tomb shall pay χρηστῇ πατσίδι Ἱεράπολι χείλια χρυσᾶ , 1000 gold pieces to my excellent fatherland Hierapolis (see W. M. Ramsay, Exp. III. ix. p. 265). For the mystical sense of πατρίς in Heb_11:14 Moffatt ( ICC ad l. ) cites Philo de Agric. 65 (ed. Wendland). For πατριότης see P Lond 1916 (a letter dealing with the Meletian schism c. A.D. 330 340), where the postscript is added .31 f. ἐνδίξασθε οὖν τὴν ἔμφυτον ὑμῶν ἀγάπην καὶ εὐσπ <λ >αγχνία̣[ν ] καὶ τὴν στοργὴν τῆς ὑμῶν πατριότητος , show them the love and compassion that are native to you and the affection of your fatherliness (Bell).

πατρίς πατρίς, ίδος, "of one's fathers", πατρὶς γαῖα, αἶα, ἄρουρα "one's fatherland, country", Hom. [Etym: poet. fem. of πάτριος] as Subst., like πάτρα, Il. , attic

πατρίς, -ίδος, ἡ (πατήρ), [in LXX chiefly for מוֹלֶדֶת ;] prop. poët. fern. of πάτριος, of one's fathers; as subst., ἡ π. = πάτρα, fatherland, country, home, native place: Act.18:27, WH, mg., Heb.11:14; of one's own town, Mat.13:54, 57, Mrk.6:1, 4, Luk.4:23-24, Jhn.4:44.† (AS)