Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Revelation 21:12
And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
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19 occurrences in 19 verses.
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Genesis
22 verses
Exodus
33 verses
Numbers
1212 verses
Deuteronomy
1211 verses
Joshua
1919 verses
Judges
77 verses
1 Samuel
55 verses
2 Samuel
77 verses
1 Kings
77 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
1 Chronicles
44 verses
2 Chronicles
55 verses
Ezra
11 verses
Psalms
43 verses
Isaiah
33 verses
Ezekiel
1010 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Zechariah
11 verses
Matthew
22 verses
Luke
11 verses
Acts
11 verses
James
11 verses
Revelation
22 verses
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שֵׁבֶט
shêbeṭ · shay'-bet
84 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: Genesis 49:16Strong's last: Zechariah 9:1
Open full H7626 profile →מַטֶּה
maṭṭeh · mat-teh'
20 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: Numbers 1:16Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:9
Open full H4294 profile →φυλή
phylḗ · foo-lay'
6 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: Matthew 19:28Strong's last: Revelation 21:12
Open full G5443 profile →δωδεκάφυλον
dōdekáphylon · do-dek-af'-oo-lon
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
the commonwealth of Israel
Strong's KJV usage: :--twelve tribes.
Strong's first: Acts 26:7Strong's last: Acts 26:7
Open full G1429 profile →שְׁבַט
shᵉbaṭ · sheb-at'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a clan
Strong's KJV usage: tribe.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:17Strong's last: Ezra 6:17
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H4294
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
H7626
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
H7626
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
H7626
(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)
H7626
But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
H7626
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
H7626
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
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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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