πατριά
patria
“family line”
Definition
paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)
as if feminine of a derivative of G3962 (πατήρ);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
G:N-F
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
πατριά appears 3 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
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.’
from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
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.
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