H7626: שֵׁבֶט
shêbeṭ · pronounced shay'-bet · “tribe: staff”
Definition
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV translates it as: [idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Word origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off;
Extended definition
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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7626 is translated
- the tribes of ×55
- the tribe of ×40
- your ×15
- tribes ×11
- rod ×9
- a tribe ×9
- tribe ×7
- the rod of ×7
- a scepter ×6
- a rod ×6
- the scepter of ×5
- his ×4
Bible verses with H7626 (shêbeṭ)
Shêbeṭ appears in 178 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 49:10
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
- Genesis 49:16
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- Genesis 49:28
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
- Exodus 21:20
And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
- Exodus 24:4
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Exodus 28:21
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
- Exodus 39:14
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
- Leviticus 27:32
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.
- Numbers 4:18
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
- Numbers 18:2
And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
- Numbers 24:2
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
- Numbers 24:17
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
- Numbers 32:33
And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
- Numbers 36:3
And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
- Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
- Deuteronomy 1:23
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
- Deuteronomy 3:13
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
- Deuteronomy 5:23
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
- Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
- Deuteronomy 12:5
But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
- Deuteronomy 12:14
But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
- Deuteronomy 16:18
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
- Deuteronomy 18:1
The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 18:5
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.
All 178 references
- Deuteronomy 29:8
- Deuteronomy 29:10
- Deuteronomy 29:18
- Deuteronomy 29:21
- Deuteronomy 31:28
- Deuteronomy 33:5
- Joshua 1:12
- Joshua 3:12
- Joshua 4:2
- Joshua 4:4
- Joshua 4:5
- Joshua 4:8
- Joshua 4:12
- Joshua 7:14
- Joshua 7:16
- Joshua 11:23
- Joshua 12:6
- Joshua 12:7
- Joshua 13:7
- Joshua 13:14
- Joshua 13:29
- Joshua 13:33
- Joshua 18:2
- Joshua 18:4
- Joshua 18:7
- Joshua 21:16
- Joshua 22:7
- Joshua 22:9
- Joshua 22:10
- Joshua 22:11
- Joshua 22:13
- Joshua 22:15
- Joshua 22:21
- Joshua 23:4
- Joshua 24:1
- Judges 5:14
- Judges 18:1
- Judges 18:19
- Judges 18:30
- Judges 20:2
- Judges 20:10
- Judges 20:12
- Judges 21:3
- Judges 21:5
- Judges 21:6
- Judges 21:8
- Judges 21:15
- Judges 21:17
- Judges 21:24
- 1 Samuel 2:28
- 1 Samuel 9:21
- 1 Samuel 10:19
- 1 Samuel 10:20
- 1 Samuel 10:21
- 1 Samuel 15:17
- 2 Samuel 5:1
- 2 Samuel 7:7
- 2 Samuel 7:14
- 2 Samuel 15:2
- 2 Samuel 15:10
- 2 Samuel 18:14
- 2 Samuel 19:9
- 2 Samuel 20:14
- 2 Samuel 23:21
- 2 Samuel 24:2
- 1 Kings 8:16
- 1 Kings 11:13
- 1 Kings 11:31
- 1 Kings 11:32
- 1 Kings 11:35
- 1 Kings 11:36
- 1 Kings 12:20
- 1 Kings 12:21
- 1 Kings 14:21
- 1 Kings 18:31
- 2 Kings 17:18
- 2 Kings 21:7
- 1 Chronicles 5:18
- 1 Chronicles 5:23
- 1 Chronicles 5:26
- 1 Chronicles 11:23
- 1 Chronicles 12:37
- 1 Chronicles 23:14
- 1 Chronicles 26:32
- 1 Chronicles 27:16
- 1 Chronicles 27:20
- 1 Chronicles 27:22
- 1 Chronicles 28:1
- 1 Chronicles 29:6
- 2 Chronicles 6:5
- 2 Chronicles 11:16
- 2 Chronicles 12:13
- 2 Chronicles 33:7
- Job 9:34
- Job 21:9
- Job 37:13
- Psalms 2:9
- Psalms 23:4
- Psalms 45:6
- Psalms 74:2
- Psalms 78:55
- Psalms 78:67
- Psalms 78:68
- Psalms 89:32
- Psalms 105:37
- Psalms 122:4
- Psalms 125:3
- Proverbs 10:13
- Proverbs 13:24
- Proverbs 22:8
- Proverbs 22:15
- Proverbs 23:13
- Proverbs 23:14
- Proverbs 26:3
- Proverbs 29:15
- Isaiah 9:4
- Isaiah 10:5
- Isaiah 10:15
- Isaiah 10:24
- Isaiah 11:4
- Isaiah 14:5
- Isaiah 14:29
- Isaiah 19:13
- Isaiah 28:27
- Isaiah 30:31
- Isaiah 49:6
- Isaiah 63:17
- Jeremiah 10:16
- Jeremiah 51:19
- Lamentations 3:1
- Ezekiel 19:11
- Ezekiel 19:14
- Ezekiel 20:37
- Ezekiel 21:10
- Ezekiel 21:13
- Ezekiel 37:19
- Ezekiel 45:8
- Ezekiel 47:13
- Ezekiel 47:21
- Ezekiel 47:22
- Ezekiel 47:23
- Ezekiel 48:1
- Ezekiel 48:19
- Ezekiel 48:23
- Ezekiel 48:29
- Ezekiel 48:31
- Hosea 5:9
- Amos 1:5
- Amos 1:8
- Micah 5:1
- Micah 7:14
- Zechariah 9:1
- Zechariah 10:11