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πατήρ — Matthew 10:37 kinship relation

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SEMANTIC_USAGE_OCCURRENCEUSAGE_G3962_MAT_10_37
Curation State
CURATED
Release Introduced
v45
Language
Greek
Lemma
πατήρ
Strong Id
G3962
Lemma Keys
[
    "πατήρ",
    "G3962"
]
Evidence Layers
[
    {
        "id": "BIBLICAL_HEBREW_GREEK",
        "role": "textual_corpus"
    }
]
Source Ids
[
    "SRC_SBLGNT",
    "SRC_KJV1769"
]
Source Reference
Matthew 10:37
Date Range
{
    "label": "1st century CE composition context",
    "certainty": "broad"
}
Original Language
Greek
Attested Form
πατέρα
Original Excerpt
Ὁ φιλῶν πατέρα ἢ μητέρα ὑπὲρ ἐμέ
Translation
{
    "text": "the one loving father or mother more than me",
    "responsibility": "Berean Archive working context translation; used only for the semantic-usage record.",
    "alignment_note": "Context-level evidence only; this record does not create a new translation-token alignment."
}
Semantic Domains
[
    {
        "id": "social_kinship",
        "role": "primary",
        "classification": "documented fact",
        "rationale": "The occurrence directly names a father in a family relationship."
    },
    {
        "id": "household_everyday",
        "role": "secondary",
        "classification": "strong evidence",
        "rationale": "The saying assumes ordinary household and family bonds."
    }
]
Evidence Strength
DIRECT_ATTESTATION
Context Summary
The word is used in its ordinary kinship sense in a saying about competing loyalties.
Evidence Boundary
πατήρ has literal, ancestral, honorific, and theological uses elsewhere; this record classifies only this occurrence.
Scripture Reference
{
    "book": "MAT",
    "chapter": 10,
    "verse": "37",
    "edition": "sblgnt"
}