Patriá — G3965

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry
2. a race or tribe, i. e. a group of families, all those who in a given people lay claim to a common origin
3. family in a wider sense, equivalent to nation, people

Usually translated as

family, lineage, kindred

Origin

as if feminine of a derivative of G3962

• patḗr (G3962)

Occurrences

Patriá occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (1), Acts (1), Ephesians (1)

• Luke 2:4 — And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage (πατριᾶς) of David:)
• Acts 3:25 — Ye 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 (πατριαὶ) of the earth be blessed.
• Ephesians 3:15 — Of whom the whole family (πατριὰ) in heaven and earth is named,