Lexicon patriarchés: a patriarch Original Word: πατριάρχης, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: patriarchés Phonetic Spelling: (pat-ree-arkh'-ace) Short Definition: a patriarch Definition: a patriarch, head or founder of a family. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom patria and archóDefinitiona patriarch NASB Translationpatriarch (2), patriarchs (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3966: πατριάρχηςπατριάρχης, πατριάρχου, ὁ ( πατριά and ἄρχω; see ἑκατοντάρχης), a Hellensitic word ( Winers Grammar, 26), a patriarch, founder of a tribe, progenitor: used of David, Acts 2:29; of the twelve sons of Jacob, founders of the several tribes of Israel, Acts 7:8f; of Abraham, Hebrews 7:4; of the same and Isaac and Jacob, 4 Macc. 7:19; 16:25; used for הָאָבות רֹאשׁ, 1 Chronicles 24:31 (but the text here is uncertain); for שְׁבָטִים שַׂר, 1 Chronicles 27:22; for הַמֵּאות שַׂר, 2 Chronicles 23:20.
Strong's patriarch. From patria and archo; a progenitor ("patriarch") -- patriarch. see GREEK patria see GREEK archo |
    |