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
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
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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)
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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.)
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.