Patriarchs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PATRIARCHS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PATRIARCH, a man who is the head of a family
• an older man who is powerful within an organization
• the male founder of something
• the head of an autocephalous or independent Orthodox Church
• a Roman Catholic bishop ranking above primates and metropolitans and immediately below the Pope, often the head of a Uniate community
• the male head of a family or tribe.
• any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their forefathers, or the sons of Jacob.
• a bishop of one of the most ancient Christian sees (Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and formerly Rome).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people; a man who is father or founder; the oldest member or representative of a group; a venerable old man; a man who is head of a patriarchy

Words related to PATRIARCHS

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How to use PATRIARCHS in a sentence

• It was after all this that the patriarchs of Constantinople attempted to make themselves fully independent of the West.
• I next saw the soul of our Lord accompanied by those among the patriarchs whom he had liberated enter into the tomb through the rock.
• There was a quiet pastoral air about the landscape, a soft serenity in its forms and colors, as if the Hebrew patriarchs still made it their abode.
• One row of benches was occupied by a solemn group of white-bearded patriarchs who looked as if they had momentarily paused on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
• Eventually, the patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops, from all regions of the world, who took part in this Council, were seven hundred and four.
• The statues are of angels, martyrs, patriarchs, apostles, the vices and virtues, the Virgin and Child.
• It is the Way trodden by Patriarchs, Prophets, and ancient servants of God.
• There are also several histories of the Chinese patriarchs.
• Twenty-eight Patriarchs are supposed to have flourished between the death of the Buddha and the arrival of Bodhidharma in China.
• But the school of Bodhidharma continues the series, reckoning him as the twenty-eighth, and the first of the Chinese Patriarchs.
• Other lists of Patriarchs vary from that given above, partly because they represent the traditions of other schools.
• If it be His will that men should be born free and equal, that will is not revealed in the Bible from the time of the patriarchs to the present day.
• In the days of the patriarchs there were women who would not have children, and there were women also who longed and prayed for them, even as Hannah did.
• Their camps at night were like the camps of the patriarchs, many women to work for each man, thousands of cattle grazing in the grass.
• Three young Jews became anxious for Christian baptism, and both the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs refusing it, they fell into the cold embrace of the Papal Church.
• Lives of the Patriarchs and Prophets, 300 pages, 1,000 copies.
• We are surrounded by the great patriarchs of the Andes, and their speaker, Cotopaxi, ever and anon sends his muttering voice over the land.
• But when Charles died, in 1685, and was succeeded by his brother James, the patriarchs of New England began to tremble.
• Here are the tombs of our patriarchs, who led and protected the nation during centuries of oppression and slavery.
• As early as the thirteenth century, these virgins of old had their places in cathedrals by the side of patriarchs and prophets.
• This, in its purity, as taught by Christ Himself, was the true primitive religion, as communicated by God to the Patriarchs.
• Religion of the Ancient Patriarchs taught by God, 582-u.
• Religion of the Patriarchs as practiced by the early Christians, 540-l.
• Religion revealed to the patriarchs taught by Masonry, 214-u.
• Close to the cathedral in Dunkeld stand the two patriarchs of the family, first introduced into Scotland from Switzerland in 1737.
• Below these, on each side of the throne, the prophets and patriarchs of the Old Testament, holding each a scroll.
• A celebrated divine sage, usually reckoned among the ten patriarchs first created by Brahma.
• But he may live to be as old as I am, or the patriarchs, she returned.
• The first of these will comprehend the Patriarchs and the Israelites from the creation to the time of Moses.
• They seemed to realize that some of the wisdom of the fathers in State politics, of the patriarchs with whom he had trained, had fallen to him by natural inheritance.
• And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt.

Similar words containing PATRIARCH without suffix s

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