Bible dictionaries
Lineage
What Bible dictionaries say about “Lineage”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Lineage - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
LIN'EAGE, n.
Race; progeny; descendants in a line from a common progenitor.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
lin'-e-aj (patria): Found only once in Lu 2:4 (the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "family"), and signifying the line of paternal family descent. A word pregnant in meaning among the Jews, who kept all family records with religious care, as may be seen from the long genealogical records found everywhere in the Old Testament.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915