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Lexicon :: Strong's H7626 - šēḇeṭ

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שֵׁבֶט
Transliteration
šēḇeṭ
Pronunciation
shay'-bet
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root probably meaning to branch off
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2314a

Strong’s Definitions

שֵׁבֶט shêbeṭ, shay'-bet; from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan:—× correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 190x

The KJV translates Strong's H7626 in the following manner: tribe (140x), rod (34x), sceptre (10x), staff (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 190x
The KJV translates Strong's H7626 in the following manner: tribe (140x), rod (34x), sceptre (10x), staff (2x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe

    1. rod, staff

    2. shaft (of spear, dart)

    3. club (of shepherd's implement)

    4. truncheon, sceptre (mark of authority)

    5. clan, tribe

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֵׁבֶט shêbeṭ, shay'-bet; from an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan:—× correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
STRONGS H7626: Abbreviations
שֵׁ֫בֶט 189 noun masculineNumbers 24:17 (feminineEzekiel 21:15, 18 but corrupt): 1. rod, staff, club, sceptre. 2. tribe; — שׁ׳ absolute Genesis 49:10+, construct 1 Samuel 10:20 +; שָׁ֑טֶ Deuteronomy 1:23 +; suffix שִׁבְטוֺ Judges 21:24+, etc.; plural שְׁבָטִים 1 Kings 11:31 +, construct שִׁבְטֵי Genesis 49:16 +, suffix שְׁבָטֶיךָ Deuteronomy 12:14 +, etc.; —
†1.
a. rod, staff (evidently common article), for smiting (especiallyהִכָּה בַשּׁ׳) Exodus 21:20 (E), Micah 4:14 [Micah 5:1]; Isaiah 10:15 (in simile; || מַטֶּה), Proverbs 10:13 +; מוּסָר שׁ׳ compare Proverbs 29:15; for beating (חָבַט) cummin Isaiah 28:27 (|| מַטֶּה); as (inferior) weapon (opposed to חֲנִית) 2 Samuel 23:21= 1 Chronicles 11:3 (compareמַקֵּל 1 Samuel 17:40, 43); figurative of י׳'s chastisement: national Isaiah 10:24; Isaiah 30:31 (both || מַטֶּה), Isaiah 14:29, אַמִּי שׁ׳ Isaiah 10:5 עֶבְרָתוֺ שׁ׳ Lamentations 3:1; individual Job 9:34; Job 21:9 (אֱלוֺהַּ שׁ׳), Job 37:13, 2 Samuel 7:14 (אֲנָשִׁים שׁ׳, i.e. not in-human), Psalm 89:33 (both || נְגָעִים).
b. shaft, i.e. spear, dart, 2 Samuel 18:14, but < read שְׁלָחִים Greek Version of the LXX βέλη Th We Kit HPS Bu.
c. shepherd's implement, club, Psalm 23:4 (|| מִשְׁעֶנֶת), רְעֵה בְשׁ׳ Micah 7:14 (both figurative of י׳); used in mustering or counting sheep Ezekiel 20:37 (figurative), Leviticus 27:32 (compare Jeremiah 33:13), see MackieHast. DB RoD
d. truncheon, sceptre, mark of authority, סֹפֵר שׁ׳ Judges 5:14, משְׁלִים שׁ׳ Isaiah 14:5 (|| מַטֶּה), Genesis 49:10 (poem in J; (|| מְהֹקֵק), Zechariah 10:11 (Psalm 45:7 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 19:11, 14 (made from a branch, מַטֶּה); a ruler is תּוֺמֵךְ שׁ׳ Amos 1:5, 8; as symbol of conquest Numbers 24:17 (JE); בַּרְזֶל שׁ׳ Psalm 2:9 (of Messianic king);הָרֶשַׁע שׁ׳ Psalm 125:3; עֶבְרָתוֺ שׁ׳ Proverbs 22:8 (si vera lectio, compare Frankenb. Toy). — see מַטֶּה, מַקֵּל, מִשְׁעֶנֶת.
2. 145: tribe (synonymמַטֶּה, which see 3., especially
a. of (12) tribes of Israel, Genesis 49:16, 28 (poem in J), Deuteronomy 33:5 (poem), Exodus 24:4 (E), + often [J E + 13 times, D + 28 times (מַטֶּה J E D), P + 9 times (compare GrayNumbers 4:18; מ׳ + 150 times + in P); Judges + 15 times. (never מ׳), Samuel + 14 times (never מ׳), Kings + 13 times). (מ׳ + 2 times), Chronicles + 15 times (מ׳ + 23 times), Psalms, + 7 times (never מ׳), prophets + 16 times (מ׳ † Habakkuk 3:9, very dubious)]; Judges 20:12; 1 Samuel 9:21 read שֵׁבֶט (or שִׁבְטִי Ges§ 90 I, We Sta§ 343 e Dr, for שִׁבְטֵי), Vrss (GFMJu); שִׁבְטֵייָֿהּ Psalm 122:4; שִׁבְטֵי נַחֲלָתֶ֑ךָ Isaiah 63:17.
b. singular of people (of Judah, late) Psalm 74:2, but Jeremiah 10:16 = Jeremiah 51:19 strike out נ׳ שׁ׳ Gf Gie Du.
c. of subdivision of tribe, וגו׳ מִשְׁפְּחוֹת שׁ׳ Numbers 4:18 (P). — 2 Samuel 7:7 read שֹׁפְטֵי (compare 2 Samuel 7:11, || 1 Chronicles 17:6, Ew Th We Dr HPS Bu and others)

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7625.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

49:10; 49:10; 49:16; 49:16; 49:28

Exodus

21:20; 24:4

Leviticus

27:32

Numbers

4:18; 4:18; 24:17; 24:17

Deuteronomy

1:23; 12:14; 33:5

Judges

5:14; 20:12; 21:24

1 Samuel

9:21; 10:20; 17:40; 17:43

2 Samuel

7:7; 7:11; 7:14; 18:14; 23:21

1 Kings

11:31

1 Chronicles

11:3; 17:6

Job

9:34; 21:9; 37:13

Psalms

2:9; 23:4; 45:7; 74:2; 89:33; 122:4; 125:3

Proverbs

10:13; 22:8; 29:15

Isaiah

10:5; 10:15; 10:24; 14:5; 14:29; 28:27; 30:31; 63:17

Jeremiah

10:16; 33:13; 51:19

Lamentations

3:1

Ezekiel

19:11; 19:14; 20:37; 21:15; 21:18

Amos

1:5; 1:8

Micah

5:1; 7:14

Habakkuk

3:9

Zechariah

10:11

H7626

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Strong's Number H7626 matches the Hebrew שֵׁבֶט (šēḇeṭ),
which occurs 190 times in 178 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 49:10–Jos 18:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:10 - A ruler shall not fail from Juda, nor a prince from his [fn]loins, until there come the things stored up for him; and he is the expectation of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 - Dan shall judge his people, as one tribe too in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:28 - All these are the twelve sons of Jacob; and their father spoke these words to them, and he blessed them; he blessed each of them according to his blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:20 - And if a man smite his man-servant or his maid-servant, with a rod, and the party die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and set up twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - And let the stones of the names of the children of Israel be twelve according to their names, engravings as of seals: let them be for the twelve tribes each according to the name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - (LXX 36:21) And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their names [fn]like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:32 - And every tithe of oxen, and of sheep, and whatsoever may come in numbering under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:18 - Ye shall not destroy the family of Caath from the tribe out of the midst of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:2 - And take to thyself thy brethren the tribe of Levi, the family of thy father, and let them be joined to thee, and let them minister to thee; and thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:2 - And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and sees Israel encamped by their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - I will point to him, but not now; I bless him, but he draws not near: a star shall rise out of Jacob, a man shall spring out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - And Moses gave to them, even to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and [fn]its cities with its coasts, the cities of the land round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - And they will become wives in one of the tribes of the children of Israel; so their inheritance shall be taken away from the possession of our fathers, and shall be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which the women shall marry, and shall be taken away from the portion of our inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:13 - [fn]Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15 - So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and [fn]officers to your judges.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23 - And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13 - And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan the kingdom of Og I gave to the half-tribe of Manasse, and all the country round about Argob, all that Basan; it shall be accounted the land of Raphain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:23 - And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the fire, for the mountain burned with fire, that ye came to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:8 - At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:5 - But in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose in one of your cities to name his name there, and to be called upon, ye shall even seek him out and go thither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14 - save in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, in one of thy tribes, there shall ye offer your whole-burnt-offerings, and there shalt thou do all things whatsoever I charge thee this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:18 - Thou shalt make for thyself judges and officers in thy cities, which the Lord thy God gives thee in thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - The priests, the Levites, even the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; the burnt-offerings of the Lord are their inheritance, they shall eat them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:5 - because the Lord has chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord thy God, to minister and bless in his name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:8 - (LXX 29:7) And we smote them and took their land, and I gave it for an inheritance to Ruben and Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:10 - (LXX 29:9) Ye all stand to-day before the Lord your God, the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - (LXX 29:17) Lest there be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart has turned aside from the Lord your God, having gone to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be in you a root springing up with gall and bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - (LXX 29:20) And the Lord shall separate that man for evil of all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in the book of this law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:28 - Gather together to me the heads of your tribes, and your elders, and your judges, and your officers, that I may speak in their ears all these words; and I call both heaven and earth to witness against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:5 - And he shall be prince with the beloved one, when the princes of the people are gathered together with the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:12 - And to Ruben, and to Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse, Joshua said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:12 - Choose for yourselves twelve men of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2 - Take men from the people, one of each tribe,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4 - And Joshua having called twelve men [fn]of distinction among the children of Israel, one of each tribe,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - said to them, Advance before me in the presence of the Lord into the midst of Jordan, and each having taken up a stone from thence, let him carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - And the children of Israel did so, as the Lord commanded Joshua; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, (as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the children of Israel had completely passed over,) and carried these stones with them into the camp, and laid them down there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:12 - And the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse passed over [fn]armed before the children of Israel, as Moses commanded them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:14 - And ye shall all be gathered together by your tribes in the morning, and it shall come to pass that the tribe which the Lord shall shew, ye shall bring by families; and the family which the Lord shall shew, ye shall bring by households; and the household which the Lord shall shew, ye shall bring man by man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16 - And Joshua rose up early, and brought the people by their tribes; and the tribe of Juda was pointed out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:23 - And Joshua took all the land, as the Lord commanded Moses; and Joshua gave them for an inheritance to Israel by division according to their tribes; and the land ceased from war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:6 - Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel smote them; and Moses gave them by way of inheritance to Ruben, and Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - And these are the kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua and the children of Israel slew beyond Jordan by the sea of Balagad in the plain of Libanus, and as far as the mountain of Chelcha, as men go up to Seir: and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel to inherit according to their portion;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7 - And now divide this land by lot to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe of Manasse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - Only no inheritance was given to the tribe of Levi: the Lord God of Israel, he is their inheritance, as the Lord said to them; and this is the division which Moses made to the children of Israel in Araboth Moab, on the other side of Jordan, by Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:29 - And Moses gave to half the tribe of Manasse according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:2 - And the sons of Israel remained, even those who had not received their inheritance, seven tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:4 - [fn]Appoint of yourselves three men of each tribe, and let them rise up and go through the land, and let them describe it before me, as it will be proper to divide it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:7 - For the sons of Levi have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is his portion; and Gad, and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasse, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave to them.

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