Bible Dictionary: Ancestry

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) Series of ancestors; lineage; those who compose the line of natural descent.

Greek

1075. genealogeo -- to trace ancestry
... to trace ancestry. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: genealogeo Phonetic Spelling:
(ghen-eh-al-og-eh'-o) Short Definition: I put into a genealogy, reckon my ...
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3965. patria -- lineage, family
... of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: patria Phonetic Spelling: (pat-ree-ah')
Short Definition: a family, tribe Definition: lineage, ancestry; a family ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3205. yalad -- to bear, bring forth, beget
... has (1), have (2), labor (5), labor has borne (1), labor the midwife (1), laid
(1), midwife (1), midwives (6), produced (1), registered by ancestry (1), sired ...
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Library

Birth and Ancestry
... Chapter I Birth and Ancestry. Like many other people of European descent,
born in this country, I can trace my ancestry back to their ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter i birth and ancestry.htm

Our Spiritual Ancestry
... I OUR SPIRITUAL ANCESTRY. The ideas and sentiments which underlie the higher
life of our time may be largely traced back to two roots ...
/.../merriam/the chief end of man/i our spiritual ancestry.htm

Ancestry, Birth, Education, Environment: 1513(?)-1546
... CHAPTER I: ANCESTRY, BIRTH, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT: 1513(?)-1546. "November
24, 1572. "John Knox, minister, deceased, who had, as ...
/.../lang/john knox and the reformation/chapter i ancestry birth education.htm

These are the False Accusations; the Accusation of Classicism...
... public-school boys are not pedants, they are not torturers; and they are not, in
the vast majority of cases, people fiercely proud of their ancestry, or even ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 38 these are the.htm

The Kingly Priesthood of the Saints
... Remember his royal ancestry. ... But since some men will glory in their descent, I will
glory that the saints have the proudest ancestry in all the world. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the kingly priesthood of the.htm

The Word Success Can of Course be Used in Two Senses. ...
... A modern fashionable host dare not praise his ancestry; it would so often be an
insult to half the other oligarchs at table, who have no ancestry. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 37 the word success.htm

Prologue
... Following this clew, we run back along the line of what may be called "our spiritual
ancestry." Turning naturally to our own next of kin, a child of New England ...
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The Israelites
... to be a part. But they were not the only nation of the ancient Oriental
world which derived its ancestry from Abraham. He was the ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter i the israelites.htm

Spiritual Diagnosis
... Not for himself does man live. Every action of every man has an ancestry
and a posterity"an ancestry and a posterity in other lives. ...
/.../berkhof/new evangelism and other papers/spiritual diagnosis.htm

Idealistic Philosophy
... establish by reasoning. KANT. Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in Koenigsberg,
possibly of remoter Scottish ancestry. His father was ...
/.../chapter ii idealistic philosophy.htm

Thesaurus

Ancestry (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Series of ancestors; lineage; those who compose the
line of natural descent. Multi-Version Concordance Ancestry (7 Occurrences). ...
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Zephaniah (11 Occurrences)
... ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF. I. THE AUTHOR 1. Name 2. Ancestry 3. Life II. TIME 1. Date
2. Political Situation 3. Moral and Religious Conditions III. ...
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Juda (11 Occurrences)
... In Luke 1:39; Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5; 7:5, the word refers to the tribe of
Judah. (2.) The father of Simeon in Christ's maternal ancestry (Luke 3:30). ...
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Anchor (4 Occurrences)

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Ancestral (14 Occurrences)

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Testament (13 Occurrences)
... In Luke 3:38 the ancestry of Jesus Christ is traced up to Adam, "Adam, the son of
God," thereby testifying to the acceptance of the Old Testament genealogies ...
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Ruth (19 Occurrences)
... and Importance of the Narrative: Thus, the life and history of Ruth are important
in the eyes of the narrator because she forms a link in the ancestry of the ...
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New (1850 Occurrences)
... In Luke 3:38 the ancestry of Jesus Christ is traced up to Adam, "Adam, the son of
God," thereby testifying to the acceptance of the Old Testament genealogies ...
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Adam (29 Occurrences)
... In Luke 3:38 the ancestry of Jesus Christ is traced up to Adam, "Adam, the son of
God," thereby testifying to the acceptance of the Old Testament genealogies ...
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Abraham (2539 Occurrences)
... Through Terah Abraham's ancestry is traced back to Shem, and he is thus related
to Mesopotamian and Arabian families that belonged to the "Semitic" race. ...
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Bible Concordance

Ancestry (7 Occurrences)

Romans 9:5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
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Hebrews 7:3 with no father or mother, and no record of ancestry: having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made a type of the Son of God--this man Melchizedek remains a priest for ever.
(WEY)

Hebrews 7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
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Numbers 1:18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 16:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
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Ezekiel 21:30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
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Ezekiel 29:14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
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Subtopics

Ancestry

Related Terms

Zephaniah (11 Occurrences)

Juda (11 Occurrences)

Anchor (4 Occurrences)

Ancestral (14 Occurrences)

Testament (13 Occurrences)

Ruth (19 Occurrences)

New (1850 Occurrences)

Adam (29 Occurrences)

Abraham (2539 Occurrences)