Words the Bible translates as family
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- oikosοἶκοςa house: the building a family lives in, and by extension the people who belong to it, from a single household to a whole family line
- elephאֶלֶףthe number one thousand, the round figure used to count people, soldiers, animals, time, and value
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- a clan or troop: the subdivision of a tribe that supplied its fighting men, and the contingent it sent
- mishpaḥahמִשְׁפָּחָהa clan: the group of people who belong together by shared descent, occupying the social tier between the tribe and the individual household
- genosγένοςa group that belongs together by common origin: offspring, a people, or a kind of thing
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