patriav patriav, patria'", hJ (from pathvr);1. lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry: Herodotus 2, 143; 3, 75.2. a race or tribe, i. e. a group of families, all those who in a given people lay claim to a common origin: eijsiv ajutewn (Babulwnivwn) patriaiv trei'", Herodotus 1, 200. The Israelites were distributed into (twelve) t/Fm', fulaiv, tribes, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob; these were divided into t/jp;v]mi, patriaiv, deriving their descent from the several sons of Jacob's sons; and these in turn were divided into t/ba;h; tyBe, oi\koi, houses (or families); cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, i., p. 193; iii., p. 1463; Winer's RWB under the word St?mme; (Keil, Archaeol. sec. 140); hence, ejx oi[kou kaiv patria'" Dauivd, i. e. belonging not only to the same `house' (patriav) as David, but to the very `family' of David, descended from David himself, (au|tai aiJ patriaiv tw'n uiJw'n Sumewvn, ; oJ ajnhvr aujth'" Manassh" th'" fulh'" aujth'" kaiv th'" patria'" aujth'", ; tw'n fulw'n katav patria'" aujtw'n, ; oi\koi patriw'n, ; , and often; add, Josephus, Antiquities 6, 4, 1; 7, 14, 7; 11, 3, 10).3. family in a wider sense, equivalent to nation, people: (; ()); pa'sa patriav ejn oujranoi'" (i. e. every order of angels) kaiv ejpiv gh'", .*