GreekG3965Noun (Feminine)

πατριά

patria

3Occurrences
G3965Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

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

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
1.lineage, ancestry .
2.= *πάτρα *(more common in cl.), a family or tribe (so sometimes in Hdt., in LXX of related people, in a sense narrower than *φυλή *and wider than *οἶκος; *see
LXX: chiefly for אָב, also for מִשְׁפָּחָה,

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

πατριά appears 3 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Acts
1
Ephesians
1
Luke
1

Key Passages

Acts 3:25BSB

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.’

Ephesians 3:15BSB

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

Luke 2:4BSB

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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