21 Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Colossians 3:21. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
When a verse uses different numbering in a source tradition, Spirit Nation may show the closest mapped source reference and label it directly on the panel.
Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Οἱ πατέρες, μὴ ἐρεθίζετε τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ ἀθυμῶσιν.
Οἱ
πατέρες
μὴ
ἐρεθίζετε
τὰ
τέκνα
ὑμῶν
ἵνα
μὴ
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
οἱ πατέρες, μὴ ἐρεθίζετε τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν, ἵνα μὴ ἀθυμῶσιν.
οἱ
τὰ
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܐܒܗܐ ܠܐ ܬܪܓܙܘܢ ܒܢܝܟܘܢ ܕܠܐ ܢܬܬܥܝܩܘܢ
ܐܒܗܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܒܗܐ
- Transliteration
- 'bh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 7
ܠܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܠܐ
- Transliteration
- la
- Morphology
- negative particle
- Gloss
- not
- Occurrences
- 1681
ܬܪܓܙܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܬܪܓܙܘܢ
- Transliteration
- trgzwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 2
ܒܢܝܟܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܢܝܟܘܢ
- Transliteration
- bnykwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 5
ܕܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܠܐ
- Transliteration
- dl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 720
ܢܬܬܥܝܩܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܬܬܥܝܩܘܢ
- Transliteration
- ntt'yqwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 1
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Patres, nolite ad indignationem provocare filios vestros, ut non pusillo animo fiant.
patres
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- pater
- Transliteration
- patres
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1575
nolite
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nolo
- Transliteration
- nolite
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 620
ad
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ad
- Transliteration
- ad
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 7531
indignationem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- indignatio
- Transliteration
- indignationem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 102
provocare
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- prouoco
- Transliteration
- provocare
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 63
filios
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- filius
- Transliteration
- filios
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 5067
vestros
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uester
- Transliteration
- vestros
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 1504
ut
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ut
- Transliteration
- ut
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 4533
non
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- non
- Transliteration
- non
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 7320
pusillo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- pusillus
- Transliteration
- pusillo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 22
animo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- animus
- Transliteration
- animo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 109
fiant
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- fio
- Transliteration
- fiant
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 449
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Ephesians 6:4
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
22 relevance votesPsalms 103:13
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
7 relevance votesProverbs 3:12
for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
6 relevance votes1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
3 relevance votes