noun · feminine
patrias
Strong’sG3965
a family, tribe
stem patri-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
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.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3965 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpat-ree-ah'
paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)
Fromas if feminine of a derivative of G3962;
King Jamesfamily, kindred, lineage.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect πατρ-ιή, ἡ, (πατήρ) lineage, descent, especially by the father's side, ἐγενεηλόγησε τὴν π. τὴν Κύρου NT+5th c.BC+
II ={πάτρα} Refsclan, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 family, LXX+NT
III in plural, = patrum officia, Refs 4th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | patrias1×πατριὰ | patriais1×πατριαὶ |
| object accusative | patrian | patriain |
| direct address vocative | patriar | patriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | patriau1×πατριᾶς | patriaiu |
| to, for dative | patria | patriai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
patria is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
patrias“family”subjectnominative singular1×
Ephesians 3:15ek hou pantas patrias en ouranoi kai epi gēau onomazotō,from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives …
patriau“family line”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 2:4“family line”… tem arō auton ek oikou kai patriau David,… Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
patriais“families”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 3:25… te sperme su eneulogili pantais tais patriais tau gēau.… Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’