Patriarches means “patriarch” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3966 — meod in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3966 πατριάρχης (patriarches) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. patriarches (pat-ree-arkh'-ace) n. 1. a progenitor, the ancestor and father of ("patriarch") [from G3965 and G757] It has 11 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include patriarch and patriarchs. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
patriarches (pat-ree-arkh'-ace) n. 1. a progenitor, the ancestor and father of ("patriarch") [from G3965 and G757] KJV: patriarch Root(s): G3965, G757
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3966. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
patriarch
Usage: πατριάρχης, -ου, ὁ (πατριά, ἄρχω), [in LXX: 1Ch.24:31 (אָב), 2Ch.19:8 26:12 (אָב רֹאשׁ), 1Ch.27:12 (שַׂר), 2Ch.23:20 (מֵאָה שַׂר), 4Ma.7:19 4Mac 16:25 * ;] a patriarch: Act.2:29 7:8-9, Heb.7:4.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render patriarches, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3966 (πατριάρχης) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
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.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And they also received lots as their brethren the sons of Aaron before the king; Zadok also, and Ahimelech, and the chiefs of the families of the priests and of the Levites, principal heads of families, even as their younger brethren.
for Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham: these are the chiefs of the tribes of Israel.
Moreover Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the priests, and Levites, and heads of houses of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the dwellers in Jerusalem.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.
And they saw this, too, that they who die for God, live to God; as Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3966.
And they also received lots as their brethren the sons of Aaron before the king; Zadok also, and Ahimelech, and the chiefs of the families of the priests and of the Levites, principal heads of families, even as their younger brethren.
for Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham: these are the chiefs of the tribes of Israel.
Moreover Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the priests, and Levites, and heads of houses of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord, and to judge the dwellers in Jerusalem.
And he took the heads of families, and the mighty men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they conducted the king into the house of the Lord; and he went through the inner gate into the king’s house, and they seated the king on the throne of the kingdom.
The whole number of the chiefs of families of the mighty men of war was two thousand six hundred;
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
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.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.
And they saw this, too, that they who die for God, live to God; as Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3966, grouped by book.
Patriarches (Strong's G3966) is a Greek word most simply glossed "patriarch". patriarches (pat-ree-arkh'-ace) n. 1. a progenitor, the ancestor and father of ("patriarch") [from G3965 and G757]
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G3966 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3966 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as patriarch and patriarchs. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3966, with linked reader references where each row is available.