Tribe
שֵׁ֫בֶטStrong’s H7626shevet (she-vet)
Appears in 178 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shevet is the Hebrew word usually translated “tribes of”, “tribe of” and “tribes your”. It appears in 178 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, triberod, staff · shaft (of spear, dart) · club (of shepherd's implement) · truncheon, sceptre (mark of authority) · clan, tribe
- Clan, tribe
How it's translated
- tribes of 48
- tribe of 36
- tribes your 7
- the tribes 7
- a scepter 6
- a tribe 6
- with the rod 5
- rod of 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 29
- Deuteronomy 17
- Ezekiel 16
- Judges 14
- 1 Chronicles 12
- Isaiah 12
24 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 10:11In contextAnd he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
- Genesis 49:10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
- Genesis 49:16Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- Genesis 49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
- Exodus 21:20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
- Exodus 24:4And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
All 178 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁ֫בֶט shevet · tribe
: staff 1) rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe 1a) rod, staff 1b) shaft (of spear, dart) 1c) club (of shepherd's implement) 1d) truncheon, sceptre (mark of authority) 1e) clan, tribe
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.