Lexicon patria: Family, lineage, tribe, nation Original Word: πατριά Strong's Exhaustive Concordance lineage, family, kindredAs if feminine of a derivative of pater; paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation) -- family, kindred, lineage. see GREEK pater NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom patér Definition lineage, family NASB Translation families (1), family (2). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3965: πατριάπατριά, πατριᾶς, ἡ (from πατήρ); 1. lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry: Herodotus 2, 143; 3, 75. 2. a race or tribe, i. e. a group of families, all those who in a given people lay claim to a common origin: εἰσί ἀυτεων (Βαβυλωνίων) πατριαί τρεῖς, Herodotus 1, 200. The Israelites were distributed into (twelve) מַטּות, φυλαί, tribes, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob; these were divided into מִשְׁפָחות, πατριαί, deriving their descent from the several sons of Jacob's sons; and these in turn were divided into הָאָבות בֵּית, οἶκοι, houses (or families); cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 193; iii., p. 1463; Winer's RWB under the word Stämme; (Keil, Archaeol. § 140); hence, ἐξ οἴκου καί πατριᾶς Δαυίδ, i. e. belonging not only to the same 'house' (πατριά) as David, but to the very 'family' of David, descended from David himself, Luke 2:4 (αὗται αἱ πατριαί τῶν υἱῶν Συμεών, Exodus 6:15; ὁ ἀνήρ αὐτῆς Μανασσης τῆς φυλῆς αὐτῆς καί τῆς πατριᾶς αὐτῆς, Judith 8:2; τῶν φυλῶν κατά πατριᾶς αὐτῶν, Numbers 1:16; οἶκοι πατριῶν, Exodus 12:3; Numbers 1:2, and often; add, Josephus, Antiquities 6, 4, 1; 7, 14, 7; 11, 3, 10). 3. family in a wider sense, equivalent to nation, people: Acts 3:25 (1 Chronicles 16:28; Psalm 21:28 Englishman's Concordance Luke 2:4 N-GFSGRK: οἴκου καὶ πατριᾶς Δαυίδ NAS: he was of the house and family of David, KJV: the house and lineage of David:) INT: [the] house and family of David Acts 3:25 N-NFP Ephesians 3:15 N-NFS Strong's Greek 3965 |
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