'Kinsmen' in the Bible
And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Jehovah, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is nigh of kin unto us, one of our near kinsmen.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.
And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.
And on the morrow they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kinsmen and his near friends.
For I could wish that I myself were anathema from Christ for my brethren's sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also have been in Christ before me.
Timothy my fellow-worker saluteth you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.