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- noun Plural form of
patriarch .
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Examples
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Sydney Smith quoted the anonymous teacher who rebuked a careless student for reading the word patriarchs as partridges with the scathing comment, "You are making game of the patriarchs."
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&c. But the foreign clergy was envious, the pope disapproved this national monopoly, and of the six Latin patriarchs of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Future successors to Gautama are known as patriarchs and they found different interpretations of his teachings, resulting in the various sects.
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The experiences of the patriarchs are a foreshadowing for their descendants.
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Abraham, his son Yitshak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel), are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites.
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Abraham, his son Yitshak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel), are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites.
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He informed me that since the death of the last Haik monarch, which occurred in the eleventh century, Armenia had been governed both temporally and spiritually by certain personages called patriarchs; their temporal authority, however, was much circumscribed by the
Lavengro 2004
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All these elements convinced Albright that the age of the patriarchs was a real one.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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The biblical account of the life of the patriarchs is a brilliant story of both family and nation.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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All these elements convinced Albright that the age of the patriarchs was a real one.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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