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Strong's #3966 - πατριάρχης
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- patriarch, founder of a tribe, progenitor
- of the twelve sons of Jacob, founders of the tribes of Israel
- of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
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πατρι-άρχης, ου, ὁ,
(πατρι)
father or chief of a race, patriarch, LXX 1 Chronicles 27:22, Acts 2:29, Acts 7:8, Hebrews 7:4.
II title borne by the Bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria, Just. Nov. 3.2, etc.: — Adj. πατρι-αρχικός, ή, όν, of or belonging to him, θρόνος ib. 7 Praef. 1, cf. Cod.Just. 1.5.12.22.
πατριάρχης, 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.
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† πατριάρχης , -ου , ὁ
(< πατριά , ἄρχω ),
[in LXX: 1 Chronicles 24:31 (H1), 2 Chronicles 19:8; 2 Chronicles 26:12 (H1 H7218), 1 Chronicles 27:12 (H8269), 2 Chronicles 23:20 (H3967 H8269), 4 Maccabees 7:19; 4 Maccabees 16:25*;]
a patriarch: Acts 2:29; Acts 7:8-9, Hebrews 7:4.†
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In Acts 14:6 ἡ περίχωρος (sc. γῆ) describes ";the country that lies round"; the two cities of Lystra and Derbe, ";where there were no cities but only villages organized after the Anatolian style, not according to the Hellenic municipal fashion"; (Ramsay Recent Discovery, p. 39 n..1 : cf. CRE p. 47 ff.).
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