πατριάpatriá
paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)
Greek (New Testament) · G3965
Meanings
1. lineage, ancestry.
2. = πάτρα (more common in classical Greek), a family or tribe (so sometimes in Hdt., in LXX of related people, in a sense narrower than φυλή and wider than οἶκος; see Exodus 12:3, Numbers 32:28): Luke 2:4; in a wider sense (1 Chronicles 16:28, Psalms 22:27), Acts 3:25(LXX), Ephesians 3:15.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Luke 2:4 And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David’s ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee.
- Acts 3:25 You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.’
- Ephesians 3:15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.