Word Summary
apatōr: fatherless
Original Word: ἀπάτωρTransliteration: apatōr
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-at'-ore)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: fatherless
Meaning: fatherless
Strong's Concordance
without father.
From a (as a negative particle) and pater; fatherless, i.e. Of unrecorded paternity -- without father.
see GREEK a
see GREEK pater
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 540: ἀπάτωρἀπάτωρ,
ἀπατορος,
ὁ,
ἡ (
πατήρ), a word which has almost the same variety of senses as
ἀμήτωρ, which see; (from
Sophocles down); (without father i. e.)
whose father is not recorded in the genealogies:
Hebrews 7:3.