Patriarchs (Bible) father of the prophets in Islam because all subsequent prophets descended from him (the Israelite prophets through Ishāq and Muhammad through Ismā'īl). The Matriarchs, also known as "the four mothers" (ארבע האמהות), who were married to the biblical patriarchs: Patriarchs (Bible) The patriarchs ( "Avot" or "Abot", singular "Ab" or Aramaic: אבא "Abba") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites. These three figures are referred to collectively as the patriarchs, and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age. They
Despot (court title) the feminine form of the title is despotess or despotissa (from ; ; /), which denoted the spouse of a despot, but the transliterated traditional female equivalent of "despotes", despoina (, "déspoina", "lady of the house"), is also commonly used. The original Greek term ("despotēs") meant simply "lord" and was synonymous with ("kyrios"). As the Greek equivalent to the Latin "dominus", "despotēs" was initially used as a form of address indicating respect. As such it was applied to any person of rank, but in a more specific sense to God, bishops and the patriarchs, and primarily the Roman and Byzantine