Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
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Families
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Zechariah 14:17
And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
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מִשְׁפָּחָה
mishpâchâh · mish-paw-khaw'
169 times translated as this KJV form301 total Strong's occurrences
a family, i.e. circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people
Strong's KJV usage: family, kind(-red).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 10:5Strong's last: Zechariah 14:17
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ʼâb · awb
2 times translated as this KJV form1,212 total Strong's occurrences
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Strong's KJV usage: chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 35:5Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 35:12
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bayith · bah'-yith
2 times translated as this KJV form2,046 total Strong's occurrences
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 35:5Strong's last: Psalms 68:6
Open full H1004 profile →טַף
ṭaph · taf
1 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
a family (mostly used collectively in the singular)
Strong's KJV usage: (little) children (ones), families.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 47:12Strong's last: Genesis 47:12
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H4940
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
H4940
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
H4940
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
H4940
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
H4940
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
H4940
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
English meaning and historical usage.
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family
FAM'ILY, noun [Latin familia.]
1. The collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children and servants, and as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
2. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe or race; kindred; lineage. Thus the Israelites were a branch of the family of Abraham; and the descendants of Reuben, of Manasseh, etc., were called their families. The whole human race are the family of Adam, the human family
3. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors.
Go and complain thy family is young.
4. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock. He is a man of family
5. A collection or union of nations or states.
The states of Europe were, by the prevailing maxims of its policy, closely united in one family
6. In popular language, an order, class or genus of animals or of other natural productions, having something in common, by which they are distinguished from others; as, quadrupeds constitute a family of animals, and we speak of the family or families of plants.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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