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lineage lin'-e-aj (patria): Found only once in Luke 2:4 (the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "family"), and signifying the line of paternal family descent. A word pregnant in meaning among the Jews, who kept all family records with religious care, as may be seen from the long genealogical records found everywhere ...
LIN'EAGE, n. Race; progeny; descendants in a line from a common progenitor. Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828. For a complete Scripture study system, try SwordSearcher Bible Software, which includes the unabridged version of this dictionary.
ATS Bible Dictionary. Genealogy. A record of one's ancestors, either the line of natural descent from father to son, or the line in which, by the laws, the inheritance descended, or that preserved in the public records.
Dec 2, 2019 · There are three reasons why genealogies are included in the Bible: First, they reflect the time the Bible was written. In those early days, someone's ancestry was vitally important. It located you as a member of a particular family or clan, and said something about who your 'neighbour' was – that is, who you owed loyalty to and who you were ...
One word (patria) was used to identify lineage and descent from a specific ancestor (Luke 2:4; Acts 3:25; Ephesians 3:15). Another term ( oikos ) meant a house or a building but could also refer to a lineage or clan much like the Old Testament word for household ( 1 Corinthians 1:16 ).
Lineage. LIN'EAGE, noun. Race; progeny; descendants in a line from a common progenitor.
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