Strong's Greek #3971 - πατρῷος, α, ον patróos (of one's fathers)

paternal

From pater; paternal, i.e. Hereditary -- of fathers.

see GREEK pater

Strong's 3971: πατροως

πατροως (poetic and Ionic πατρωιος), πατρωα, πατροων, (πατήρ), from Homer 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 22:3 (2 Macc. 6:1; Aelian v. h. 6, 10); Θεός, Acts 24:14 (4 Macc. 12:19; and often in Greek writings θεοί πατροωι, Ζεύς πατροως etc.); τοῖς ἔθεσι τοῖς πατροωις, Acts 28:17 (Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho,

c. 63; πατροως ἔθος, Aelian v. h. 7, 19 variant). [SYNONYMS: πατροως, πατρικός: on the distinction of the grammarians (see Photius, Suidas, Ammonius, etc. under the words) according to which πατροως is used of property descending from father to son, πατρικός of persons in friendship or feud, etc., see Ellendt, Lex. Sophocles ii., p. 530f; Liddell and Scott, under the word πατροως; Schmidt, chapter 154.]

Strong's Greek: 3971. πατρῷος (patróos) — 3 Occurrences

Acts 22:3 - Adj-GMS
GRK: ἀκρίβειαν τοῦ πατρῴου νόμου ζηλωτὴς
NAS: to the law of our fathers, being
KJV: of the law of the fathers, and was
INT: exactness of the ancestral law a zealous one

Acts 24:14 - Adj-DMS
GRK: λατρεύω τῷ πατρῴῳ θεῷ πιστεύων
NAS: the God of our fathers, believing
KJV: the God of my fathers, believing
INT: I serve the ancestral God believing

Acts 28:17 - Adj-DNP
GRK: ἔθεσι τοῖς πατρῴοις δέσμιος ἐξ
NAS: the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered
KJV: customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered
INT: customs of our fathers a prisoner from