Ἀββᾶ

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θεὸς δ' ἁμαρτάνουσιν οὐ παρίσταται → God doesn't stand by those who do wrong → A peccatore sese numen segregat → Ein Gott steht denen, die da freveln, niemals bei

Menander, Monostichoi, 252

English (Strong)

of Chaldee origin (אַב); father as a vocative: Abba.

English (Thayer)

(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. (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.