φυλή phulē · G5443

φῡλή, ἡ, ; (φύω) properly, like{φῦλον}, a race, tribe; but accusative to [] a union formed in an organized community (whether πόλις or ἔθνος): hence, tribe, i.e. ; I a body of men united ; I.1 by supposed ties of blood and descent, clan, such as the three Dorian tribes, Rhetra cited in []; of the four Ionic tribes, []; of the Laconian, []; of the old Roman, []; of the Persian, []; of the Jewish, [] (but also of subdivisions of the tribe (σκῆπτρον),[]; I.2 by local habitation, such as the ten …