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Nave Topical Bible
• Family
Thompson Chain Reference
• Joys, Family
• Family
The Topic Concordance
• Family
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Warriors & Family
• Families; Without Dads: & Daughters, Marriage
• Belshazzar & Family
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Prayer, Social and Family
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Dictionaries
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Family
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Family Life and Relations
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Love, Family of
• Family Prayer
• Family of Love
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Family Purity
Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Family (Jewish)
• Family (Jesus)
• Family
King James Dictionary
• Family
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Herod, Family of
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
• Sisters of the Holy Family -(San Francisco)
• Sisters of the Holy Family -(New Orleans)
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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• Family
Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Family
• Families
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Austric Family of Languages
• Bethune (Family)
• Cinna (Family)
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Family
• Family Relationships
• Relationships, Family
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Herodian Family
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Brothers of the Holy Family.
• Brothers of the Holy Family. (2)
• Familists, Familia Charitatis, Family of Love
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Family Compact
• Fudge Family, the
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Archconfraternity of the Holy Family
• Cignani Family
• Congregations of the Holy Family
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Belinfante Family
• Castro, de, Family
• Embron Family, the
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Lexicons
• ܐܰܒ݂ܳܗܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܛܽܘܗܡܳܐ
• ܫܰܪܒ݁ܬ݂ܳܐ
Berry's NT Synonyms
• Tribe, Family, Household
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Tribe, Family
• γένος
• οἶκος
• πατριά
• אָב
• אֶלֶף
• אֶלֶף , אֶלֶף
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FAM'ILY, n. L. familia.

1. The collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager a household, including parents, children and servants, and as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

2. Those who descend from one common progenitor a tribe or race kindred lineage. Thus the Israelites were a branch of the family of Abraham and the descendants of Reuben, of Manasseh, &c., were called their families. The whole human race are the family of Adam, the human family.

3. Course of descent genealogy line of ancestors.

Go and complain thy family is young.

4. Honorable descent noble or respectable stock. He is a man of family.

5. A collection or union of nations or states.

The states of Europe were, by the prevailing maxims of its policy, closely united in one family.

6. In popular language, an order, class or genus of animals or of other natural productions, having something in common, by which they are distinguished from others as, quadrupeds constitute a family of animals, and we speak of the family or families of plants.