Kindred

Kindred. I. The following are the Hebrew terms thus rendered in the English Bible:

1. מַשׁפָּחָה, mishpachah', usually rendered "family," answering to the Latin gens, except that it more distinctly includes the idea of original affinity or derivation from a common stock; it corresponds exactly with our word clan. It is used of the different tribes of the Canaanites (Ge 10:18); of the subdivisions of the Hebrew people (Ex 6:14; Nu 1:20, etc.); sometimes for one of the tribes (Jos 7:17; Jg 13:2, etc.), and in the later books tropically for a people or nation (Jer 8:3; Jer 25:9; Eze 20:32; Mic 2:3). It is translated kindred in the A.V. at Ge 24:41; Jos 6:23; Ru 2:3; Job 32:2-in all of which it refers to relationship by consanguinity, more or less remote.