שֵׁבֶט
shevet · rod, scepter, tribe
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7626 · appears 190 times in the Bible
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shevet (שֵׁבֶט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rod, scepter, tribe”.
Rod, staff; a king's scepter; also tribe.
How to say it
she·vet
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A stick for guiding or correcting; the king's sign of power.
- Literally "the rod": one of the twelve great clans of Israel.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Rod, staff; a king's scepter; and from there, tribe. BDB: a scion, that is, literally a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking…) or, figuratively, a clan.
- The tribes of Israel Genesis 49:16Genesis 49:28
- The scepter: “The scepter will not depart from Judah” Genesis 49:10Psalms 45:6
- The shepherd's rod Psalms 23:4
- The rod of correction Proverbs 13:242 Samuel 7:14
How we translate it
“Tribes” 85 times, “tribe” 59, “rod” 30, “scepter” 11, “scepters” 1, “staff” 3. The context decides: “tribe” for the divisions of the people, “scepter” for the king's rod, “rod” in the other cases. The other Hebrew word with the same two senses, מַטֶּה, is likewise translated “staff” or “tribe” as the case requires.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- tribes ×85
- tribe ×59
- rod ×30
- scepter ×11
- staff ×3
- darts ×1
- scepters ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×3
- Exodus×4
- Leviticus×1
- Numbers×6
- Deuteronomy×18
- Joshua×33
- Judges×16
- 1 Samuel×8
- 2 Samuel×10
- 1 Kings×11
- 2 Kings×2
- 1 Chronicles×12
- 2 Chronicles×4
- Job×3
- Psalms×13
- Proverbs×8
- Isaiah×12
- Jeremiah×2
- Lamentations×1
- Ezekiel×16
- Hosea×1
- Amos×2
- Micah×2
- Zechariah×2
- Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be the obedience of the peoples.
- Genesis 49:16
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
- Genesis 49:28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them when he blessed them; each according to his blessing he blessed them.
- Exodus 21:20
When a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall surely be avenged.
- Exodus 24:4
Moses wrote all the words of YHWH. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve standing stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 28:21
The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with engravings of a signet, each with its name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 39:14
And the stones were according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names; with the engravings of a seal, each according to its name, for the twelve tribes.
- Leviticus 27:32
And every tithe of the herd or of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to YHWH.
- Numbers 4:18
“Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites.
- Numbers 18:2
And also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, so that they may be joined to you and minister to you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.
- Numbers 24:2
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe; and the spirit of Elohim came upon him.
- Numbers 24:17
I see him, but not now; I gaze on him, but not near. A star shall march forth from Jacob, and a scepter shall rise from Israel, and shall shatter the temples of Moab and tear down all the sons of Sheth.
- Numbers 32:33
Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within their borders, the cities of the land all around.
- Numbers 36:3
But if they become wives to one of the sons of the tribes of the sons of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 1:13
Provide for yourselves wise, discerning, and known men from your tribes, and I will set them as your heads.”
- Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and known men, and set them as heads over you, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, and supervisors for your tribes.
- Deuteronomy 1:23
The thing was good in my eyes, and I took twelve men from among you, one man for each tribe.
- Deuteronomy 3:13
The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As for all that Bashan, it is called a land of Rephaim.
- Deuteronomy 5:23
When you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,
- Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time YHWH set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of YHWH, to stand before YHWH to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
- Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses out of all your tribes to put his name there for his dwelling, and you shall go there.
- Deuteronomy 12:14
but in the place that YHWH chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.
- Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and supervisors you shall appoint for yourself in all your gates that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
- Deuteronomy 18:1
The priests, the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; the fire offerings of YHWH and his inheritance they shall eat.
- Deuteronomy 18:5
For YHWH your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of YHWH, him and his sons, all the days.
- Deuteronomy 29:8
And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
- Deuteronomy 29:10
You are standing today, all of you, before YHWH your Elohim: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your supervisors, every man of Israel,
- Deuteronomy 29:18
Beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from YHWH our Elohim to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.
- Deuteronomy 29:21
And YHWH will single him out for evil from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of imprecation of the covenant written in this book of the instruction.
- Deuteronomy 31:28
Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your supervisors, so that I may speak in their ears these words and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.
- Deuteronomy 33:5
And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people gathered, the tribes of Israel together.
- Joshua 1:12
And to the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to half the tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,
- Joshua 3:12
Now take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
- Joshua 4:2
“Take for yourselves from the people twelve men, one man from each tribe,
- Joshua 4:4
So Joshua called to the twelve men whom he had prepared from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe.
- Joshua 4:5
And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of YHWH your Elohim into the middle of the Jordan, and lift up, each of you, one stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,
- Joshua 4:8
The sons of Israel did so, just as Joshua had commanded, and carried twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as YHWH had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel; and they brought them across with them to the lodging place and left them there.
- Joshua 4:12
The sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed in battle formation before the sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them.
- Joshua 7:14
In the morning you shall come near by your tribes, and it shall be that the tribe that YHWH takes shall come near by families, and the family that YHWH takes shall come near by households, and the household that YHWH takes shall come near man by man.
- Joshua 7:16
Joshua rose early in the morning and had Israel come near by its tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.
And 150 more times.