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שֵׁבֶט

shebet

shay'-bet

Strong's 1890 spelling: shêbeṭ

a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan

Rendered in the KJV as

[idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.

  • 190
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 24 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 81
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 190 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 81

  • שִׁבְטֵ֣י22
  • שֵׁ֣בֶט21
  • שִׁבְטֵ֥י19
  • שֵׁ֥בֶט13
  • שֵׁ֖בֶט8
  • שֵֽׁבֶט־5
  • שֵׁ֤בֶט4
  • בְּשֵׁ֣בֶט3
  • הַשְּׁבָטִ֑ים3
  • לְשִׁבְטֵיכֶ֑ם3
  • שֵׁ֙בֶט֙3
  • בַּשֵּׁ֣בֶט2

and 69 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 57

  • [the] tribes of47
  • [the] tribe of35
  • the tribes7
  • tribes your7
  • with the rod7
  • a scepter6
  • a tribe6
  • [the] rod of4
  • [the] scepter of4
  • to [the] tribes of3
  • to the tribe3
  • to tribes your3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 26

  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)49
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)46
  • noun · masculine singular16
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular13
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)7
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)7
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural7
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural5
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural5
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular5
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular4
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmpc · 49
  • HNcmsc · 46
  • HNcmsa · 16
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 13
  • HR/Ncmpc · 7
  • HR/Ncmsc · 7
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 7
  • HNcmpc/Sp2mp · 5
  • HR/Ncmpc/Sp2mp · 5
  • HR/Ncmsa · 5
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 4
  • HC/Ncmsc · 3

All 190, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis3 occurrences
Exodus4 occurrences
Leviticus1 occurrence
Numbers6 occurrences
Deuteronomy18 occurrences
Joshua33 occurrences
Judges16 occurrences
1 Samuel8 occurrences
2 Samuel10 occurrences
1 Kings11 occurrences
2 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles12 occurrences
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms13 occurrences
Proverbs8 occurrences
Isaiah12 occurrences
Jeremiah2 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel16 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Amos2 occurrences
Micah2 occurrences
Zechariah2 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).