Tribe

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A collection of families descending from one ancestor. The "twelve tribes" of the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wider significance. The tribes of Israel are referred to as types of the spiritual family of God (Rev. 7). (See Israel, Kingdom of; Judah, Kingdom of.)

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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Judah, Tribe of
Judah and his three surviving sons went down with Jacob into Egypt (Gen. 46:12; Ex. 1:2). At the tim...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Naphtali, Tribe of
On this tribe Jacob pronounced the patriarchal blessing, "Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth go...

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Reuben, Tribe of
At the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, 21), and at...

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Zebulun, Tribe of
Numbered at Sinai (Num. 1:31) and before entering Canaan (26:27). It was one of the tribes which did...

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Ephraim, The tribe of
Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob's blessing (Gen. 41:52; 48:1). The descenda...

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Simeon, The tribe of
Was "divided and scattered" according to the prediction in Gen. 49:5-7. They gradually dwindled in n...

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Benjamin, The Tribe Of
The contrast between the warlike character of the tribe and the peaceful image of its progenitor com...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Gad, The Tribe Of
The country allotted to the tribe of Gad appears, speaking roughly, to have lain chiefly about the c...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary