Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
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Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
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πατριάρχης
patriárchēs · pat-ree-arkh'-ace
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a progenitor ("patriarch")
Strong's KJV usage: :--patriarch.
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patriarch
PA'TRIARCH, noun [Latin patriarcha; Gr. a family, father, and a chief.]
1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs by paternal right. It is usually applied to the progenitors of the Israelites, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the sons of Jacob, or to the heads of families before the flood; as the antediluvian patriarchs.
2. A learned and distinguished character among the Jews.
3. In the christian church, a dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Ephesus.
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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