<OL TYPE="1"><LI>lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry<LI>a nation or tribe<OL TYPE="a"><LI>a group of families, all those who in a given people lay claim to a common origin<LI>the Israelites which distributed into twelve tribes, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob, these were divided into families which were divided into houses</OL><LI>family, in a wider sense, nation, people</OL>