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Tribe

Jacob having twelve sons, who were the heads of so many great families, which altogether formed a great nation; every one of these families was called a tribe. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0523, H7625, G5443
Hebrew
אֻמָּה
Greek
φυλή · phulē

Strong’s and original-language information

H0523

אֻמָּה

Glosses: tribe, people

Indexed occurrences: 7

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

H7625

שְׁבַט

Glosses: tribe

Indexed occurrences: 1

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G5443

φυλή · phulē

Glosses: tribe

φυλή, ῆς, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for; מַטֶּה, also for שֵׁבֶט, מִשְׁפָּחָה, etc. ;

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Tribe

A collection of families descending from one ancestor. The "twelve tribes" of the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wider significance. The tribes of Israel are referred to as types of the spiritual family of God (Rev. 7). (See [643]ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF; [644]JUDAH, KINGDOM OF.)

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

TRIBE

Jacob having twelve sons, who were the heads of so many great families, which altogether formed a great nation; every one of these families was called a tribe. But Jacob on his death bed adopted Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph, and would have them also to constitute two tribes of Israel, Gen.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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Sources

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