Strong's Greek · G3966
G3966 patriárchēs
πατριάρχης
pat-ree-arkh'-ace
patriarch
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patriárchēs appears 4 times in Scripture, in Acts and Hebrews. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a progenitor ("patriarch")
In the King James Version
patriarch
Derivation
Appears 4 times in Scripture
“Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.”
“Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder.”
“Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.”
“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
