Tribe
שְׁבַטStrong’s H7625shevat (she-vat)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shevat is the Aramaic word usually translated “tribes of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.”
Meaning
- Clan, tribe
How it's translated
- tribes of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
שְׁבַט shevat · tribe
clan, tribe Aramaic of she.vet (שֵׁ֫בֶט ": staff" H7626)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tribe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRIBE, noun
[Latin tribus.]
- 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.
- A division, class or distinct portion of people, from whatever cause that distinction may have originated.
- A number of things having certain characters or resemblances, in common; as a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
- A division; a number considered collectively.
All definitions and other forms of “tribe”
- 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.
- 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). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.