Pedigree
Pedigree
SEE GENEALOGY.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pedigree
pedi-gre (, hthyalledh, to show one’s birth): The English word pedigree occurs only once in the Bible, according to the concordance. In Num 1:18, it is said: They declared their pedigrees; that is, they enrolled or registered themselves according to their family connections. The same idea is expressed frequently, employing a different term in the Hebrew, by the common phrase of Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, to reckon by genealogy, to give genealogy, etc. (compare 1Ch 7:5, 1Ch 7:9; Ezr 2:62 ff; Neh 7:64). These last passages indicate the importance of the registered pedigree or genealogy, especially of the priests in the post-exilic community, for the absence of the list of their pedigrees, or their genealogical records, was sufficient to cause the exclusion from the priesthood of certain enrolled priests.