twelve patriarchs

plural noun

1. patriarch5

Example Sentences

In the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs—assigned by Charles to the end of the second pre-Christian century—meekness and mercy are emphasized almost to the same degree that they are in the Gospels themselves.

From The New Yorker

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is, besides this, full of ideas and language that are strikingly similar, on the one hand, to the literature of the sect and, on the other, to that of Christianity.

From The New Yorker

Morgan’s researches do not seem to have furnished him with the arms of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but those of the twelve patriarchs are given by him and others.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Stephen spake of Isaac and of Jacob, and of the twelve patriarchs; and of how Joseph had been sold into Egypt, and was in time followed by his Father and Brothers and their descendants; who remained in Egypt four hundred years, according to what the Lord had told Abraham.

From Project Gutenberg

There are twelve hours in the day, and twelve months in the year; there are twelve patriarchs, twelve prophets, twelve apostles; and this number has a greater import than the unlearned may understand.

From Project Gutenberg