How to Pronounce Patriarch
PAY-trih-ahrk
Patriarch is pronounced PAY-trih-ahrk (ˈpeɪtriˌɑːk): three syllables, stress on the first.
What is Patriarch?
A name employed in the New Testament with reference to Abraham (Heb. 7:4), the sons of Jacob (Acts 7:8, 9), and to David (2:29). This name is generally applied to the progenitors of families or “heads of the fathers” (Josh. 14:1) mentioned in Scripture, and they are spoken of as antediluvian (from Adam to Noah) and post-diluvian (from Noah to Jacob) patriachs. But the expression “the patriarch,” by way of eminence, is applied to the twelve sons of Jacob, or to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
Found in Scripture
Other names from Acts
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