Lexical Summary Abba: Abba, father Original Word: ἈββᾶTransliteration: Abba Phonetic Spelling: (ab-bah') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Abba, father Meaning: Abba -- father Strong's Concordance Abba. Of Chaldee origin ('ab); father as a vocative -- Abba. see HEBREW 'ab Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5: ἈββᾶἈββᾶ (WH (βά), Hebrew אָב father, in the Chaldean emphatic state, אַבָּא i. e. ὁ πατήρ, a customary title of God in prayer. Whenever it occurs in the N. T. (Mark 14:36; Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6) it has the Greek interpretation subjoined to it; this is apparently to be explained by the fact that the Chaldee אַבָּא, through frequent use in prayer, gradually acquired the nature of a most sacred proper name, to which the Greek-speaking Jews added the appellative from their own tongue. |
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