What does πατριά (patriá) mean in the Bible?
πατριά (patriá) is a Greek word meaning "family line".
Greek · G3965
πατριά
Family line
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πατριά G3965
Pronunciation patriá
What does πατριά (patriá) mean in the Bible?
πατριά (patriá) is a Greek word meaning "family line".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3965?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include families (1), family (1), line (1).
Where does πατριά (patriá) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 2:4. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1), Ephesians (1), Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It families 1× Acts 3:25
family 1× Ephesians 3:15
line 1× Luke 2:4
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 2:4
Aligned rows 3
Books represented 3
Luke 1 Acts 1 Ephesians 1
Source forms
πατριὰ 1x patria Ephesians 3:15
πατριαὶ 1x patriai Acts 3:25
πατριᾶς 1x patrias Luke 2:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Luke 2:4
Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural 1x Acts 3:25
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Ephesians 3:15
Evidence Summary
Greek word. family line
Strong's G3965
Lexical occurrences 3 verses Greek text appearances 3 times Word forms 3 forms 3 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
family line
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 2:4 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
πατριᾶς patriav
a family, tribe
Read verse Acts 3:25 Noun Nominative Plural Feminine
πατριαὶ patriai
a family, tribe
Read verse Ephesians 3:15 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
πατριὰ patria
a family, tribe
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 3 Aligned forms 3 Case pattern Nominative (2) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Feminine Acts 3:25 1×
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Eph 3:15 1×
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Luke 2:4 1×
Word Origins
πατριά is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain