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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H4294
Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
H4294
Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
H4294
And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
H4294
And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
H4294
And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
H4294
And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.
H4294
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
H4294
Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
H4294
And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,
H4294
And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
H4294
And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
H4294
Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
H4294
And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,
H4294
And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
H4294
And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.
H7626
And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
H7626
Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.
H7626
And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
H7626
Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
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Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
H7626
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
H7626
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
H7626
And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
G5443
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
G5443
And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
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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