'Families' in the Bible

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, according to their nations.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.

And I will bless those who bless you,And the one who curses you I will curse.And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Now these are the names of the chiefs descended from Esau, according to their families and their localities, by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,