reuven · Reuben

What it means

reuven (רְאוּבֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Reuben”.

The firstborn of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him. The name sounds like "look, a son!".

How to say it

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.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×13
• Exodus×3
• Numbers×20
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×22
• Judges×2
• 1 Chronicles×6
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 29:32

  Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because YHWH has seen my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

• Genesis 30:14

  In the days of the wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to Leah his mother. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of the mandrakes of your son.”

• Genesis 35:22

  While Israel was dwelling in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 37:21

  But Reuben heard it and delivered him from their hands, and said, “Let us not take his life.”

• Genesis 37:22

  Reuben said to them, “Do not shed blood; throw him into this cistern that is in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him,” so that he might deliver him from their hands to bring him back to his father.

• Genesis 37:29

  Reuben returned to the cistern, and look, Joseph was not in the cistern; and he tore his clothes.

• Genesis 42:22

  Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the child’? But you did not listen. And look, his blood too is being required.”

• Genesis 42:37

  Reuben said to his father, “You may put to death my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will return him to you.”

• Genesis 46:8

  These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob’s firstborn, Reuben.

• Genesis 46:9

  The sons of Reuben: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

• Genesis 48:5

  And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Genesis 49:3

  Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the first fruit of my vigor, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

• Exodus 1:2

  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

• Exodus 6:14

  These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Enoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

• Numbers 1:5

  And these are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

• Numbers 1:20

  The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:21

  those of them counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

• Numbers 2:10

  The banner of the camp of Reuben shall be on the south side by their armies; and the chief of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur,

• Numbers 2:16

  All those counted of the camp of Reuben are one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, by their armies. They shall set out second.

• Numbers 7:30

  On the fourth day, the chief of the sons of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur:

• Numbers 10:18

  And the banner of the camp of Reuben set out by their armies, and over its army was Elizur son of Shedeur.

• Numbers 13:4

  And these are their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

• Numbers 16:1

  Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, took men, with Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, sons of Reuben.

• Numbers 26:5

  Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The sons of Reuben: Enoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

• Numbers 32:1

  The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had much livestock, very numerous; and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and look, the place was a place for livestock.

• Numbers 32:2

  The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the community, saying,

• Numbers 32:6

  Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?

• Numbers 32:25

  The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

• Numbers 32:29

  Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben cross with you the Jordan, every armed man for the war before YHWH, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

• Numbers 32:31

  The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, “What YHWH has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

• 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 32:37

  The sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

• Deuteronomy 11:6

  and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their houses and their tents and all that existed at their feet, in the midst of all Israel.

• Deuteronomy 27:13

  And these shall stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• Deuteronomy 33:6

  Let Reuben live and not die, and let his men be a number.”

• 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 13:15

  And Moses gave to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

• Joshua 13:23

  And the border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan as a border. This is the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families: the cities and their villages.

• Joshua 15:6

  and the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed along north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan son of Reuben;

And 32 more times.