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 thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
H4294
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
H4294
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
H4294
And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
H7626
And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
H4294
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:
H4294
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
H4294
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
H4294
For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received their inheritance; and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance:
H4294
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
H4294
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.
H4294
And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
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And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
H4294
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
H4294
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.
H4294
The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
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And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
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And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
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And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
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And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
H4294
And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
H4294
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
H4294
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
H4294
And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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