John 4:21:22John.4.21.W22TAB
πατρί
patri
“Father”
- Transliteration
- pa-TRI
- Extended
- pa-TRI
- IPA
- /paˈtri/
Meaning by language
- English
- Father
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
pa-TRI
- sentence
LE-gei au-TÊI ho ee-ay-SOOS PI-steu-e moi GY-nai HO-ti ER-khe-tai HÔ-ra HO-te OO-te en tôi O-rei TOU-toi OO-te en hi-e-ro-so-LY-mois pros-ky-NÊ-se-te tôi pa-TRI
Exegesis
The dative phrase tō patri {τῷ πατρί | tô pa-trí} is the dative of indirect object with proskynēsete, specifying “the Father” as the One being worshiped and highlighting a relational, familial designation for God. In translation, the historical present is rendered with a simple past (“said” / “told”) for natural English narrative flow, while the future indicative is preserved as “will worship” to maintain the predictive force and the structural “neither…nor” construction is kept to mirror the emphatic exclusion in Greek.
In context — John 4:21
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father .”
About this coordinate
John 4:21:22 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 22 of John 4:21, so the Greek word πατρί (patri) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written John.4.21.W22, which extends further down to each syllable (John.4.21.W22.S1) and character.