Quick Definition
πατροπαράδοτος, ον Adj inherited
Strong's Definition
from 3962 and a derivative of 3860 (in the sense of handing over or down); traditionary
KJV Usage: received by tradition from fathers
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | πατήρ
33.240 · Communication · Teach
traditions, handed down teaching pertaining to teaching which has been handed down from the ancestors
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πατρο-παράδοτος, -ον, (πατήρ and παραδίδωμι), handed down from one’s fathers or ancestors: 1 Pet.i. 18 [Β. 91 (79)]. (Diod. 4, 8; 15, 74; 17,4; Dion. Hal. antt. 5, 48; Theophil. ad Autol. 2, 34; Euseb. ἢ. 6. 4, 23, 10; 10, 4, 16.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πατροπαράδοτος patroparadotos 1x
handed down or received by tradition from one’s fathers or ancestors, 1 Pet. 1:18*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† πατρο-παρά-δοτος, -ον
(< πατήρ, παραδίδωμι),
handed down from one's fathers, inherited: I Pe 1:18 (Diod., al.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πατροπαράδοτος. To the few exx. of this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (1 Pet 118), “handed down from one’s fathers,” ‘‘ inherited,’’ Deissmann (BS, p. 266f.) adds a Pergamene inscr., Perg 2484 (B.C. 135-134), in which Attalus states that his mother Stratonike, who came originally from Cappadocia, had brought τὸν Ala τὸν Σαβάζιον πατροπαράδοτον to Pergamus. See also another Pergamene inscr. Cagzat IV. 203}: *! where a gymnasiarch is praised ἐπὶ [τ]οῖς mpoyeypappévors Kal ἐπὶ τῶι πατροπαράδοτ[ο]ν [ἔχ Ἰονῖ τα τὸ peyado]pepts Kal φιλόδοξον μηδένα καιρὸν παραλείπειν, and Michel 3045 (mid. 1.8.6.) πατροπαράϑοτον παρειληφὼς τὴν πρὸς τὸν δῆμ[ον] ἡμῶν εὔνοιαν.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πατροπαράδοτος (patroparadotos) — from forefathers. πατρο-παράδοτος, ον, handed down from one's fathers, inherited, ἡ μικρὰ καὶ π. οὐσία [NT+2nd c.BC+]