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:
Joshua 13:29: "And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe"
Joshua 13:33: " But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the LORD God"
Joshua 18:2: "among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received"
Joshua 18:4: "Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land,"
Joshua 18:7: "and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond"
Joshua 21:16: "out of those two tribes."
Joshua 22:7: "Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave"
Joshua 22:9: "and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from"
Joshua 22:10: "and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar"
Joshua 22:11: "and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar"
Joshua 22:13: "of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead,"
Joshua 22:15: "of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead,"
Joshua 22:21: "and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto"
Joshua 23:4: "nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations"
Joshua 24:1: "gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders"
Judges 5:14: "governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer."
Judges 18:1: "in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell"
Judges 18:1: "had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel."
Judges 18:19: "or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?"
Judges 18:30: "and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity"
Judges 20:2: "of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people"
Judges 20:10: "men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand"
Judges 20:12: " And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying,"
Judges 20:12: "sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness"
Judges 21:3: "in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?"
Judges 21:5: "said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up"
Judges 21:6: "their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day."
Judges 21:8: "And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up"
Judges 21:15: "that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel."
Judges 21:17: "There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel."
Judges 21:24: "thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence"
1 Samuel 2:28: "And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon"
1 Samuel 9:21: "I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least"
1 Samuel 9:21: "and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore"
1 Samuel 10:19: "us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands."
1 Samuel 10:20: "And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin"
1 Samuel 10:20: "the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken."
1 Samuel 10:21: "When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken,"
1 Samuel 15:17: "wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king"
2 Samuel 5:1: "Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spoke,"
2 Samuel 7:7: "I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed"
2 Samuel 7:14: "If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:"
2 Samuel 15:2: "city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."
2 Samuel 15:10: "sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear"
2 Samuel 18:14: "with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom,"
2 Samuel 19:9: "were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved"
2 Samuel 20:14: "And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites:"
2 Samuel 23:21: "had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear"
2 Samuel 24:2: "him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to"
1 Kings 8:16: "I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build"
