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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 13 times in 13 verses in 'Gen' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:32 - So Leah conceived and bore a son and named him [fn]Reuben H7205, for she said, “Because Yahweh has [fn]seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 -

And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben H7205 went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 -

Now it happened while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben H7205 went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

And there were twelve sons of Jacob—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 -

the sons of Leah:

Reuben H7205, Jacob’s firstborn,

then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - But Reuben H7205 heard this and delivered him out of their hands and said, “Let us not strike down his life.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - Reuben H7205 further said to them, “Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not put forth your hands against him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands to return him to his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29 -

Then Reuben H7205 returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22 - And Reuben H7205 answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; yet you would not listen? So also his blood, behold, it is required of us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben H7205 spoke to his father, saying, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hand, and I will return him to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 -

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel—of Jacob and his sons—who were coming to Egypt: Reuben H7205, Jacob’s firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:9 - The sons of Reuben H7205: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:5 - “So now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben H7205 and Simeon are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 -

“Reuben H7205, you are my firstborn;

My might and the beginning of my vigor,

[fn]Preeminent in dignity and [fn]preeminent in strength.

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