Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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patriarch | Yes | No | No | No |
Jacob | Yes | No | No | No |
patriarch (noun) | Jacob (noun) |
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the male head of family or tribe | (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel; Jacob wrestled with God and forced God to bless him, so God gave Jacob the new name of Israel (meaning `one who has been strong against God') |
any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race | French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920) |
title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) | |
a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself |