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Patriarch.


'Head of a family,' applied in the N.T. to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as ancestors of the Israelites, and to the twelve sons of Jacob. David also is thus designated. Acts 2: 29; Acts 7: 8, 9; Heb. 7: 4. In other passages the same persons are called 'the fathers.'