Quick Definition
afather-in-law
Strong's Definition
a wife's father
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;
KJV Usage: father in law
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πενθερός, πενθεροῦ, ὁ, a father-in-law, a wife's father: Joh_18:13. (Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plutarch, others; the Sept. (for ηΘν, ηΙϊΕο.).)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πενθερός pentheros 1x
a father-in-law, Joh_18:13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πενθερός , -οῦ , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H2524 , Gen_38:13 , al. ; also for H2859 , Jdg_1:16 A;]
a father-in-law: Joh_18:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πενθερός [page 502]
a father-in-law ( Joh_18:13 ) : cf. P Oxy II. 237 vii. 21 (A.D. 186) Σεμπρώνιον πενθερὸν ἑαυτο [ῦ , P Thead 13 i. 2 (A.D. 322 or 323) Ἥρων πενθερὸς αὐτῷ ἐτελεύτα , and P Lond 232 .8 ( c. A.D. 346) (= II. p. 296) πενεθερὸς γὰρ τυγχάνι Τιμοθέου .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πενθερός πενφερός, οῦ, ὁ, "a father-in-law", Lat. socer, Hom. , etc.:—in pl. "parents-in-law", Eur. generally, "a connexion by marriage", e. g. "brother-in-law", id=Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πενθερός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for חָם, Gen.38:13, al.; also for חָתַן, Jdg.1:16 A ;]
a father-in-law: Jhn.18:13.†
(AS)