πατριά patriá

Meaning

paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)

In the King James Version: family, kindred, lineage

Derivation: as if feminine of a derivative of G3962 (πατήρ);

Where it is used

• Luke 2:4 So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
• Acts 3:25 And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
• Ephesians 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.