Strong's Greek · G3965

πατριά

patriá

family, kindred, lineage

Definition

paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)

Derivation

as if feminine of a derivative of G3962 (πατήρ);

Appears 3 times in Scripture

Acts 3:25

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

Luke 2:4

So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.

Ephesians 3:15

from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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