Strong's G3965 · Greek

πατριά

patria · pat-ree-ah'

as if feminine of a derivative of 3962; paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)

Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

πατριά (G3965)

3 πατριά , -ᾶς, ἡ ( πατήρ ), [in LXX chiefly for אָב , Ex 6:14 , al., also for מִשְׁפָּחָה , Ex 6:15 , II Ki 14:7 , Ps 21 (22):27 , al.;] lineage , ancestry (Hdt.). = 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 ; v. Ex 12:3 , Nu 32:28 ): Lk 2:4 ; in a wider sense ( I Ch 16:28 , Ps 21 (22):27 ), Ac 3:25 (LXX) , Eph 3:15 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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