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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Tribes

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

112exact KJV occurrences 105Old Testament 7New Testament 24books containing the word 5mapped Strong's IDs 112occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 49:16

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

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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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where tribes appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

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
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH4294
מַטֶּה

maṭṭeh · mat-teh'

20 times translated as this KJV form248 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 1:16Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:9

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GreekG1429
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

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AramaicH7625
שְׁבַט

shᵉbaṭ · sheb-at'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a clan

Strong's KJV usage: tribe.

Strong's first: Ezra 6:17Strong's last: Ezra 6:17

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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7 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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2 Samuel 5:1
H7626

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 7:7
H7626

In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

2 Samuel 15:2
H7626

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

2 Samuel 15:10
H7626

But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

2 Samuel 19:9
H7626

And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

2 Samuel 20:14
H7626

And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

2 Samuel 24:2
H7626

For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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