Original Language Studio
1 Kings 11:32
“(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שֵׁבֶטshêbeṭ · shay'-bet
H7626 · Hebrew
H7626 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
- Derivation
- from an unused root probably meaning to branch off;
- KJV renderings
- [idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- שֵּׁ֥בֶט — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 190 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 49:10Genesis 49:16Genesis 49:28Exodus 21:20Exodus 24:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שֵׁבֶט here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.