'Families' in the Bible

and the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. From these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath, and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.

Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

these mentioned by name were leaders in their families; and their fathers’ houses increased greatly [so they needed more land].

And his brothers (relatives) by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, were the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah,

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first allocation by lot)

and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, with their pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and [the other half of] Manasseh in Bashan.

To the sons of Merari were given twelve cities by lot, according to their families, from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their [allotted] territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

and from the half-tribe of Manasseh [these cities], with their pasture lands: Aner and Bileam, for the rest of the families of the sons of Kohath.

Their relatives among all the families of Issachar, courageous men, registered by genealogies, were 87,000 in all.

Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,Ascribe to the Lord glory and honor and strength.

The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, namely, the Jehielites, were the heads of the fathers’ households, belonging to Ladan the Gershonite.