Lineage

LINEAGE [isbe]

LINEAGE - lin'-e-aj (patria): Found only once in Lk 2:4 (the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "family"), and signifying the line of paternal family descent. A word pregnant in meaning among the Jews, who kept all family records with religious care, as may be seen from the long genealogical records found everywhere in the Old Testament.

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