G3966 – patriarches – πατριάρχης – patriarch
- Strong’s ID:
- G3966
- Greek Word:
- πατριάρχης
- Transliteration:
- patriarches
- Pronunciation:
- pat-ree-arkh’-ace
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 4
- Search:
- Find “patriarches” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) patriarch, founder of a tribe, progenitor
1a) of the twelve sons of Jacob, founders of the tribes of Israel
1b) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.