group of families or a whole race

, (Hdt.). lineage ancestry = (more common in cl.), or (so sometimes in Hdt., in LXX of related people, in a sense narrower than and wider than ; v. , ): ; in a wider sense (, ), , .† πάτρα φυλή οἶκος a family tribe Ex 12:3 Nu 32:28 Lk 2:4 I Ch 16:28 Ps 21 (22):27 Ac 3:25 Eph 3:15 (LXX)

paternal descent, i.e. (concretely) a group of families or a whole race (nation)

family, kindred, lineage