Strong's #3966: patriarches (pronounced pat-ree-arkh'-ace)

from 3965 and 757; a progenitor ("patriarch"):--patriarch.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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patriarchēs

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

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G3965 and G757

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Acts 2:29: "unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead"
Acts 7:8: "Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs."
Acts 7:9: "And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt:"
Hebrews 7:4: "was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of"