- Original: πατρῷος - Transliteration: Patroos - Phonetic: pat-ro'-os - Definition: 1. descending from father to son or from ancestors to their posterity as it were by right of inheritance 2. received from the fathers - Origin: from G3962 - TDNT entry: 5:1014,* - Part(s) of speech: Adjective - Strong's: From G3962 ; paternal that is hereditary: - of fathers. Total KJV Occurrences: 3 • fathers, 3 Act 22:3; Act 24:14; Act 28:17