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Lexicon :: Strong's H7205 - rᵊ'ûḇēn

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רְאוּבֵן
Transliteration
rᵊ'ûḇēn
Pronunciation
reh-oo-bane'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the imperative of רָאָה (H7200) and בֵּן (H1121)
Strong’s Definitions

רְאוּבֵן Rᵉʼûwbên, reh-oo-bane'; from the imperative of H7200 and H1121; see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob:—Reuben.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 72x

The KJV translates Strong's H7205 in the following manner: Reuben (72x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 72x
The KJV translates Strong's H7205 in the following manner: Reuben (72x).

  1. Reuben = "behold a son"

    1. the eldest son of Jacob by Leah

    2. the tribe descended from Reuben

    3. the territory inhabited by the tribe of Reuben

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
רְאוּבֵן Rᵉʼûwbên, reh-oo-bane'; from the imperative of H7200 and H1121; see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob:—Reuben.
STRONGS H7205: Abbreviations
רְאוּבֵן 71 proper name, masculine Reuben, Ρουβην[ιν] (behold a son! but Genesis 29:32 makes = רָאָה בְּעָנְיִי(!); JosAnt. i. 19, 7 and others Ρουβηλος, Syriac Version bdb091001, ר׳ then perhaps = Arabic bdb091002, lion, compare Di); —
1. eldest son of Jacob and Leah Genesis 29:32; Genesis 30:14 + 11 times Genesis; Exodus 1:2; 1 Chronicles 2:1; as head of family or clan Exodus 6:14 (twice in verse); Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 1 Chronicles 5:1, 3, compare בְּנֵי אֱלִיאָב בֶּןרְֿא׳ Deuteronomy 11:6.
2. as name of clan or tribe Judges 5:15, 16; Deuteronomy 27:13; Joshua 18:7 (+גָּד; both D), Deuteronomy 33:6 (poem), Ezekiel 48:6, 7, 31; Numbers 1:5 (P); so מַטֵּה ר׳ Numbers 1:21; Numbers 13:4; Joshua 20:8; Joshua 21:7 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:48; 1 Chronicles 6:63, מַחֲנֵה ר׳ Numbers 2:10, 16; Numbers 10:18 (all P); בְּנֵי ר׳, as tribe, Numbers 16:1b Numbers 32:37 (both J E), Numbers 2:10; Numbers 7:20; Numbers 26:5; Joshua 13:23 (twice in verse) (all P), also (+ Gad and often Manasseh) Numbers 32:1, 2, 6, 25 (JE), Joshua 4:12 (D), Numbers 32:29, 31, 33; Joshua 22:9 + 11 times Joshua 22 (all P), compare 1 Chronicles 5:18; בֶּןרֿ׳ as tribe Joshua 15:6; Joshua 18:7 (both P), מַטֵּה בְנֵיֿ ר׳ Joshua 13:15 (P).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

29:32; 29:32; 30:14

Exodus

1:2; 6:14

Numbers

1:5; 1:20; 1:21; 2:10; 2:10; 2:16; 7:20; 10:18; 13:4; 16:1; 26:5; 26:5; 32:1; 32:2; 32:6; 32:25; 32:29; 32:31; 32:33; 32:37

Deuteronomy

11:6; 27:13; 33:6

Joshua

4:12; 13:15; 13:23; 15:6; 18:7; 18:7; 20:8; 21:7; 22:9

Judges

5:15; 5:16

1 Chronicles

2:1; 5:1; 5:3; 5:18; 6:48; 6:63

Ezekiel

48:6; 48:7; 48:31

H7205

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7205 matches the Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (rᵊ'ûḇēn),
which occurs 72 times in 68 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 29:32–Jos 22:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it. Jacob had twelve sons:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - The sons of Leah: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29 - When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22 - Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “You may put both of my sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Entrust him to my care, and I will bring him back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 - These are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben the firstborn of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:9 - The sons of Reuben: Hanok, Pallu, Hezron and Karmi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - “Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 - “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:14 - These were the heads of their families[fn]: The sons of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel were Hanok and Pallu, Hezron and Karmi. These were the clans of Reuben.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:5 - These are the names of the men who are to assist you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:10 - On the south will be the divisions of the camp of Reuben under their standard. The leader of the people of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:16 - All the men assigned to the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, number 151,450. They will set out second.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:30 - On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, the leader of the people of Reuben, brought his offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:18 - The divisions of the camp of Reuben went next, under their standard. Elizur son of Shedeur was in command.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:4 - These are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:1 - Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—became insolent[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5 - The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel, were: through Hanok, the Hanokite clan; through Pallu, the Palluite clan;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:1 - The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:2 - So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6 - Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:25 - The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “We your servants will do as our lord commands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the LORD, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:31 - The Gadites and Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the LORD has said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - Then Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the whole land with its cities and the territory around them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:37 - And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:6 - and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:13 - And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:6 - “Let Reuben live and not die, nor[fn] his people be few.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:12 - The men of Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over, ready for battle, in front of the Israelites, as Moses had directed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:15 - This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Reuben, according to its clans:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:23 - The boundary of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Reubenites, according to their clans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:6 - went up to Beth Hoglah and continued north of Beth Arabah to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - The Levites, however, do not get a portion among you, because the priestly service of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it to them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:17 - It then curved north, went to En Shemesh, continued to Geliloth, which faces the Pass of Adummim, and ran down to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:8 - East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:7 - The descendants of Merari, according to their clans, received twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:36 - from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer, Jahaz,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:10 - When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:11 - And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:13 - So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:15 - When they went to Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh—they said to them:

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