Quick Definition
πατρίς, ίδος, ἡ n.f. fatherland
Strong's Definition
from 3902; a father-land, i.e. native town; (figuratively) heavenly home
KJV Usage: (own) country
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ίδος | πατήρ
1.81 · Geographical Objects and Features · Sociopolitical Areas
homeland, hometown the region or population center from which a person comes, that is to say, the place of one’s birth or childhood or the place from which one’s family has come In some languages a very clear distinction is made between three different references of a term such as πατρίς: (1) the place from which one’s family has come, (2) the place where one is born, and (3) the place where one normally resides. Special care, therefore, must be exercised in translating a passage such as MRK 6:1.
MAT 13:54 · MAT 13:57 · MRK 6:1 · MRK 6:4 · LUK 4:23 · LUK 4:24 · JHN 4:44 · HEB 11:14
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πατρίς, -idos, ἡ, (πατήρ), one’s native country; a. as in class. Grk. fr. Hom. down, one’s father-land, one’s (own) country: Jn. iv. 44 [οἵ. yap, IL. 1]; i. q. a fixed abode (home [R. V. a country of their own], opp. to the land where one παρεπιδημεῖ), Heb. xi. 14. b. one’s native (own) place i.e. city: Mt. xiii. 54,57; Mk. vi. 1, 4; Lk. iv. 23, [24]; so Philo, leg. ad energy § 36 (ἔστι δέ μοι Ἱεροσόλυμα πατρίς): ; Joseph, antt. 10, 7, 8; 6,4,6; ᾧ πατρὶς ἡ ᾿Ακυληΐα ἦν, Hdian. 8, 3, 2 (1 ed. “Bek. yas TlarpéBas [al. -βᾶς, as contr. fr. πατρόβιος; cf. B.D. s.v.; Bp. Lehtft. on Philip. p. 176 sq.; Chandler ὃ 32], ace. -av [ef. B. 19 (17) sq.; W. § 8, 1], Patrobas, a certain Christian: Ro. xvi. 14.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πατρίς patris 8x
one’s native place, country, or city, Mt. 13:54, 57; Mk. 6:1, 4; Lk. 4:23, 24; Jn. 4:44; a heavenly country, Heb. 11:14*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
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: Ac 18:27, WH, mg., He 11:14; of one's own town, Mt 13:54, 57, Mk 6:1, 4, Lk 4:23, 24, Jo 4:44.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πατρίς, “‘native place,” ‘‘native town’”’ rather than ‘native land” (cf. Mt 1354, Lk 423f; Field Motes, p. 10): BGU IV. 11407? (B.c. 4) κινδυνεύω od μόνον τῆς ἰδίας πατρίδος στερηθῆναι ἀλλὰ . . ., P Ryl Il. 153° (a ΝΝ1]---Α.Ὁ. 138161) the testator bequeaths certain privileges to a freedman ἐπιμ[έϊνοντι ὡς προγέγραπται τῇ πατρίδι pov, ‘while he remains as aforesaid in my native city” (Edd.), P Oxy VIII. 1102! (ς. A.D. £46) an instruction to a man τὸ τέταρτον τῆς οὐσίας εἰσενενκεῖζν» ὑπὲρ τῆς yupvac(tlapxlas τῇ αὐτοῦ πατρίδι, ‘to contribute the fourth part of the estate to his native city for the gymnasiarchy,” P Ryl II. 77% (A.D. 192) πειθόμενος TH ἐμαυτοῦ πατρίδι ἐπιδέχομαι στεφα[νη]φόρον ἐξηγητείαν, ““ obedient to my native city, 1 offer to undertake the office of a crowned exegetes ” (Edd.). Cf. also the important rescript of Caracalla, P Giss I. 4οἱν 9 (A.D. 215) permitting those who had been banished to return to their own homes—trootpepétwoav πάντες εἰς Tas πατρίδας tas 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 πατρίδι Ἱεράπολι χείλια χρυσᾶ, “tooo gold pieces to my excellent fatherland Hierapolis”’ (see W. M. Ramsay, xf. III. ix. p. 265). For the mystical sense of πατρίς in Heb 111} Moffatt (CC ad /.) cites Philo ae 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—*!f. ἐνδίξασθε οὖν τὴν ἔμφυτον ὑμῶν ἀγάπην καὶ evom (AD αγχνία[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). ,
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πατρίς (patris) — fatherland. πατρίς, ίδος, poetry feminine of πάτριος, of one's fathers, πατρὶς αἶα, ἄρουρα, one's fatherland, country, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; γῆ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. πόλις the city of one's sires, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. substantive, ={πάτρα}[Refs 8th c.BC+]; κοινὴ π., i. e. the nether world, [Refs 1st c.AD+], ubi bene, ibi patria, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; simply, native town or village, [NT+5th c.BC+]