πατρῷος (poetic and Ionic πατρώϊος), -a, -ov, (πατήρ), fr. Hom. down, descending from father to son or from ancestors to their posterity as it were by right of inheritance; received from the fathers: νόμος, Acts xxii. 3 (2 Mace. vi. 1; Ael. v.h. 6,10); θεός, Acts xxiv. 14 (4 Mace. xii. 19; and often in Grk. writ. θεοὶ πατρ., Zeds warp. ete.); τὰ ἔθη τὰ π. Acts xxviii. 17 (Justin dial. c. Tr. ὁ. 68; marp. ἔθος, Ael. v.h. 7,19 var.).

πατρῷος patrōos 3x

received from one’s ancestors, paternal, ancestral, Acts 22:3; 24:14; 28:17*

πατρῷος, -α, -ον

(< πατήρ), [in LXX: Pr 27:10 (אָב), II Es 7:5, II-IV Mac12*;]

of one's fathers, received from one's fathers: Ac 22:3 24:14 28:17.†

πατρῷος, ‘received from one’s fathers,” which occurs 267 in Acts, may be illustrated by P Eleph 5% (B.c. 284-3) ἔχω λόγον kal κεκόμιζμαι ἅπαντα τῶν πατρώιων, P Oxy III. 483% (A.D. 108) τοὺς πατρῴους θεούς (cf. Ac 2413), Chres¢. 1. 1164 (ii/iii A.D.) ἡγοῦ μάλιστα τοὺς πατρῴους Kal oé[B]ov "Tow Σαρᾶπιν κτλ.,, 25. 96% 35 (A.p. 215) εἰ]ς er[upe]Ae]t[a]v τοῦ πατρῴου ἡμ[ῶν θεοῦ, P Lond 9732° (iii/A.D.) (- ΠῚ. p. 213) προσκύνημά σου ποιῶ... . παρὰ τοῖς πατρῴοις θεοῖς, P Oxy VII. 1025!8 (late iii/A.D.) συνεορτάσοντες ἐν τῇ πατρῴᾳ ἡ[μῶν] ἑορτῇ γενεθλίῳ τοῦ Κρόνον θεοῦ μεγίστου, “ἴῃ order to celebrate with us our traditional festival on the birthday of Cronus the most great god ” (Ed:), and from the inserr. Sy// 571 (= 3987)35 (iv/B.c.) το]ῦ Διὸς τοῦ ἸΠατρώιου. >

πατρῷος (patrōos) — ancestral. πατρῷος, α, ον, also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; Epic dialect and Ionic dialect πατρώϊος, η, ον, the only form used in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; the former first in [Refs 6th c.BC+], though both use the longer form, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; Thess. πατρούεος (which see): (πατήρ):— of or from one's father, coming or inherited from him, σκῆπτρον, ἔγχος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός my old hereditary friend, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; γαῖα πατρωΐη one's fatherland, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; δῶμα, ἑστία, κοῖται, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πατρώϊα one's father's goods, patrimony, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δοῦλοι π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. δόξα hereditary glory, [Refs] of our fathers and grandfathers, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; π. οἰκία, κλῆρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ εἰρήνη ἡ π. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔχων π. ἡμῶν ὑποθήκην [Refs 1st c.AD+]; π. θεοί tutelary gods of a family or people, as Apollo at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Zeus among the Dorians, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Zeus was the θεὸς π. of Heracles, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Orestes, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ζεὺς π. was also the god who protects parents' rights, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. ={πάτριος}, of or belonging to one's father, μῆλα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἄεθλοι imposed by him, [Refs]; but π. ἆθλος of him, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. φόνοι, πήματα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ πατρώϊα the cause of one's father, opposed to τὰ μητρώϊα, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —Grammars distinguished πατρῷος, as expressing patrimonial possession, from πάτριος as expressing hereditary manners, customs, institutions; see [Refs 5th c.AD+]—The distinction holds in Attic dialect Prose; but [Refs 8th c.BC+] only, and in all these senses; so also Trag. [πάτριος should be restored in all passages in Trag. where the 2nd pers. syllable is made short in anapaest meter and Lyric poetry, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but γῆς ἀπὸ πατρωΐης ends a pentameter in [Refs]