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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:

ׁ

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:

1 Kings 11:13: "the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake,"
1 Kings 11:31: "of Solomon, and will give ten tribes"
1 Kings 11:32: "(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake,"
1 Kings 11:32: "and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes"
1 Kings 11:35: "out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes."
1 Kings 11:36: "And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have"
1 Kings 12:20: "that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only."
1 Kings 12:21: "the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand"
1 Kings 14:21: "which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put"
1 Kings 18:31: "twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto"
2 Kings 17:18: "them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only."
2 Kings 21:7: "which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put"
1 Chronicles 5:18: "of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men,"
1 Chronicles 5:23: "And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased"
1 Chronicles 5:26: "even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor,"
1 Chronicles 11:23: "like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear"
1 Chronicles 12:37: "of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments"
1 Chronicles 23:14: "his sons were named of the tribe of Levi."
1 Chronicles 26:32: "the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God,"
1 Chronicles 27:16: "Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri:"
1 Chronicles 27:20: "the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:"
1 Chronicles 27:22: "of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel."
1 Chronicles 28:1: "the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered"
1 Chronicles 29:6: "Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds,"
2 Chronicles 6:5: "I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build"
2 Chronicles 11:16: "And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts"
2 Chronicles 12:13: "which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put"
2 Chronicles 33:7: "which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put"
Job 9:34: " Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify"
Job 21:9: "are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon"
Job 37:13: "He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy."
Psalms 2:9: "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
Psalms 23:4: "for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort"
Psalms 45:6: "O God, is forever and ever: the scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter."
Psalms 45:6: "the scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter."
Psalms 74:2: "thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount"
Psalms 78:55: "also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents."
Psalms 78:67: "of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:"
Psalms 78:68: "But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which"
Psalms 89:32: "Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes."
Psalms 105:37: "and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes."
Psalms 122:4: "Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel,"
Psalms 122:4: "Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel,"
Psalms 125:3: "For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous;"
Proverbs 10:13: "of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding."
Proverbs 13:24: "He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him quickly."
Proverbs 22:8: "iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail."
Proverbs 22:15: "is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from"
Proverbs 23:13: "from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die."
Proverbs 23:14: "Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell."









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