πατριά

patria · family, clan

Greek word · Strong’s number G3965 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

patria (πατριά) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “family, clan”.

Line of descent.

How to say it

pa·tri·a

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A line descended from one father.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • family ×2
  • families ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Luke 2:4

    And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

  • Acts 3:25

    You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

  • Ephesians 3:15

    from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,