Exodus 31:2
See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
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Tribe
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Revelation 7:8
Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
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Exodus
66 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
Numbers
8475 verses
Deuteronomy
66 verses
Joshua
7360 verses
Judges
88 verses
1 Samuel
33 verses
1 Kings
66 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
3223 verses
Psalms
22 verses
Ezekiel
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
11 verses
Romans
11 verses
Philippians
11 verses
Hebrews
22 verses
Revelation
135 verses
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מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh · mat-teh'
162 times translated as this KJV form248 total Strong's occurrences
a branch (as extending); figuratively, a tribe; also a rod, whether for chastising (figuratively, correction), ruling (a sceptre), throwing (a lance), or walking (a staff; figuratively, a support of life, e.g. bread)
Strong's KJV usage: rod, staff, tribe.
Strong's first: Exodus 31:2Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 12:31
Open full H4294 profile →שֵׁבֶט
shêbeṭ · shay'-bet
56 times translated as this KJV form189 total Strong's occurrences
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
Strong's KJV usage: × correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Strong's first: Numbers 4:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:23
Open full H7626 profile →φυλή
phylḗ · foo-lay'
19 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
an offshoot, i.e. race or clan
Strong's KJV usage: :--kindred, tribe.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 2:36Strong's last: Revelation 7:8
Open full G5443 profile →אִישׁ
ʼîysh · eesh
1 times translated as this KJV form1,622 total Strong's occurrences
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 1:23Strong's last: Deuteronomy 1:23
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H7626
And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
H7626
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
H7626
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
H7626
Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
H7626
And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
H4294
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
H7626
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
H7626
So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
H4294
And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
H7626
Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
H7626
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
H7626
Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.
H4294
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
H4294
And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.
H7626
And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.
H4294
And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.
H7626
But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
H4294
By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
H4294
For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
H4294
This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
H4294
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
H4294
And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
H4294
The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
H4294
There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
H7626
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
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tribe
TRIBE, noun [Latin tribus.]
1. A family, race or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
2. A division, class or distinct portion of people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated. The city of Athens was divided into ten tribes. Rome was originally divided into three tribes; afterward the people were distributed into thirty tribes, and afterwards into thirty five.
3. A number of things having certain characters or resemblances, in common; as a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
Linneus distributed the vegetable kingdom into three tribes, viz. monocotyledonous, dicotyledonous, and acotyledonous plants, and these he subdivided into gentes or nations.
By recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a division of animals or vegetables, intermediate between order and genus. Cuvier divides his orders into families, and his families into tribes, including under the latter one or more genera. Leach, in his arrangement of insects, makes his tribes, on the contrary, the primary subdivisions of his orders, and his families subordinate to them, and immediately including the genera.
TRIBEs of plants, in gardening, are such as are related to teach other by some natural affinity or resemblance; as by their duration, the annual, biennial, and perennial tribes; by their roots, as the bulbous, tuberous, and fibrous-rooted tribes; by the loss or retention of their leaves, as the deciduous and ever-green tribes; by their fruits and seeds, as the leguminous, bacciferous, coniferous, nuciferous and pomiferous tribes, etc.
4. A division; a number considered collectively.
5. A nation of savages; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as the tribes of the six nations; the Seneca tribe in America.
6. A number of persons of any character or profession; in contempt; as the scribbling tribe
TRIBE, verb transitive To distribute into tribes or classes. [Not much used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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