Strong's #7626: shebet (pronounced 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:--X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shêbeṭ
1) rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe
1a) rod, staff
1b) shaft (of spear, dart)
1c) club (of shepherd' s implement)
1d) truncheon, sceptre (mark of authority)
1e) clan, tribe
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
Usage:
This word is used 190 times:
Genesis 49:10: " The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between"
Genesis 49:16: "shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel."
Genesis 49:28: "All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that"
Exodus 21:20: "or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished."
Exodus 24:4: "and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel."
Exodus 28:21: "with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes."
Exodus 39:14: "every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes."
Leviticus 27:32: "even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy"
Numbers 4:18: "Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among"
Numbers 18:2: "also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined"
Numbers 24:2: "Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon"
Numbers 24:17: "there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel,"
Numbers 32:33: "and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph,"
Numbers 36:3: "And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel,"
Deuteronomy 1:13: "men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers"
Deuteronomy 1:15: "So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made"
Deuteronomy 1:15: "and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes."
Deuteronomy 1:23: "twelve men of you, one of a tribe:"
Deuteronomy 3:13: "of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob,"
Deuteronomy 5:23: "that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;"
Deuteronomy 10:8: "the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark"
Deuteronomy 12:5: "the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put"
Deuteronomy 12:14: "which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings,"
Deuteronomy 16:18: "the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just"
Deuteronomy 18:1: "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part"
Deuteronomy 18:5: "thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name"
Deuteronomy 29:8: "unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh."
Deuteronomy 29:10: "the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men"
Deuteronomy 29:18: "or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day"
Deuteronomy 29:21: "shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses"
Deuteronomy 31:28: "me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these"
Deuteronomy 33:5: "in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together."
Joshua 1:12: "And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying,"
Joshua 3:12: "therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man."
Joshua 3:12: "you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel,"
Joshua 4:2: "you twelve men out of the people,"
Joshua 4:4: "men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel,"
Joshua 4:5: "upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:"
Joshua 4:8: "the LORD spoke unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,"
Joshua 4:12: "and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before"
Joshua 7:14: "In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh"
Joshua 7:14: "therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come"
Joshua 7:16: "and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:"
Joshua 7:16: "Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:"
Joshua 11:23: "it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war."
Joshua 12:6: "unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh."
Joshua 12:7: "that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;"
Joshua 13:7: "land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,"
Joshua 13:7: "unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,"
Joshua 13:14: "Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire"
