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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H7626
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
H7626
And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.
H7626
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
H4294
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
H7626
The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
G5443
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
G5443
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
G5443
That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
G1429
Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
G5443
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
G5443
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
G5443
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:
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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