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πατριάStrong’s G3965

patria

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Patria is the Greek word usually translated “family” and “families”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)”
Luke 2:4 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “family” and “families”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • family 2
  • families 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1
  • Acts 1
  • Ephesians 1

3 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary

πατριά patria · family line

πατριά, -ᾶς, ἡ (πατήρ), [in LXX chiefly for אָב, Exo.6:14, al., also for מִשְׁפָּחָה, Exo.6:15, 4Ki.14:7, Psa.22:27, al. ;] 1. lineage, ancestry (Hdt.). 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 Exo.12:3, Num.32:28): Luk.2:4; in a wider sense (1Ch.16:28, Psa.22:27), Act.3:25" (LXX) Eph.3:15.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “family” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FAM'ILY, noun

[Latin familia.]

  1. The collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children and servants, and as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
  2. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe or race; kindred; lineage.
  3. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors.
  4. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock.
All definitions
  1. A collection or union of nations or states.
  2. In popular language, an order, class or genus of animals or of other natural productions, having something in common, by which they are distinguished from others; as, quadrupeds constitute a family of animals, and we speak of the family or families of plants.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.