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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84 occurrences in 75 verses.
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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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And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
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Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
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And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
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And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
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Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
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Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
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Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
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And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
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And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
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Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
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And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
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Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
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Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
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Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
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Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
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Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
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Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
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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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