πατριά, 
πατριᾶς, 
ἡ (from 
πατήρ); 
1. lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry: 
Herodotus 2, 143; 3, 75. 
2. 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, 
Luke 2:4 (
αὗται αἱ πατριαί τῶν υἱῶν Συμεών, 
Exodus 6:15; 
ὁ ἀνήρ αὐτῆς Μανασσης τῆς φυλῆς αὐτῆς καί τῆς πατριᾶς αὐτῆς, Judith 8:2; 
τῶν φυλῶν κατά πατριᾶς αὐτῶν, 
Numbers 1:16; 
οἶκοι πατριῶν, 
Exodus 12:3; 
Numbers 1:2, and often; add, 
Josephus, Antiquities 6, 4, 1; 7, 14, 7; 11, 3, 10). 
3. family in a wider sense, equivalent to 
nation, people: 
Acts 3:25 (
1 Chronicles 16:28; Psalm 21:28 (
Ps. 22:28)); 
πᾶσα πατριά ἐν οὐρανοῖς (i. e. every order of angels) 
καί ἐπί γῆς, 
Ephesians 3:15. 
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