Strong’s G3965 · Greek
πατριά
patriá · pat-ree-ah'
Origin as if feminine of a derivative of πατήρ (G3962);
Meaning paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)
In the King James Version family, kindred, lineage.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Luke 2:4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
- Acts 3:25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
- Ephesians 3:15Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.