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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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(1):

(n.) One from whom an estate has descended; - the correlative of heir.

(2):

(n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

(3):

(n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.