πατριά: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πατριᾶς, ἡ (from [[πατήρ]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[lineage]] [[running]] [[back]] to [[some]] [[progenitor]], [[ancestry]]: [[Herodotus]] 2,143; 3,75.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[race]] or [[tribe]], i. e. a [[group]] of families, [[all]] those [[who]] in a given [[people]] [[lay]] [[claim]] to a [[common]] [[origin]]: [[εἰσί]] ἀυτεων (Βαβυλωνίων) πατριαί [[τρεῖς]], [[Herodotus]] 1,200. The Israelites were distributed [[into]] ([[twelve]]) מַטּות, φυλαί, tribes, descended from the [[twelve]] sons of Jacob; these were divided [[into]] מִשְׁפָחות, πατριαί, deriving [[their]] [[descent]] from the [[several]] sons of Jacob's sons; and these in [[turn]] were divided [[into]] הָאָבות בֵּית, [[οἶκοι]], houses (or families); cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 193; iii., p. 1463; Winer's RWB [[under]] the [[word]] Stämme; (Keil, Archaeol. § 140); [[hence]], ἐξ οἴκου καί πατριᾶς Δαυίδ, i. e. belonging [[not]] [[only]] to the [[same]] '[[house]]' ([[πατριά]]) as David, [[but]] to the [[very]] '[[family]]' of David, descended from David [[himself]], αὗται αἱ πατριαί τῶν υἱῶν [[Συμεών]], ὁ [[ἀνήρ]] αὐτῆς Μανασσης τῆς φυλῆς αὐτῆς καί τῆς πατριᾶς αὐτῆς, τῶν φυλῶν [[κατά]] πατριᾶς αὐτῶν, [[οἶκοι]] πατριῶν, Josephus, Antiquities 6,4, 1; 7,14, 7; 11,3, 10).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[family]] in a wider [[sense]], equivalent to [[nation]], [[people]]: [[πᾶσα]] [[πατριά]] ἐν οὐρανοῖς (i. e. [[every]] [[order]] of angels) καί [[ἐπί]] γῆς, Ephesians 3:15.