Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also asked as a male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's bracket membership derives from in addition to is recorded through their father's lineage. It broadly involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin. This is sometimes distinguished from cognate kinship, through the mother's lineage, also called the spindle side or the distaff side.

A patriline "father line" is a person's father, and additional ancestors, as traced only through males.

Traditionally and historically people would identify the person's ethnicity with the father's heritage andthe maternal ancestry in the ethnic factor.

In the Bible

In the tribal membership appears to be listed through the father. For example, a grown-up is considered to be a priest or Levite, whether his father is a priest or Levite, and the members of all the Twelve Tribes are called Israelites because their father is Israel Jacob. Because of this they are called the "chosen people" by virtue of being "sons of Israel"; that is, the biological male descendants of Israel, who is remanded to as their "father" in the sense that he is their lineal male ancestor.