Original Language Studio
Deuteronomy 3:16
“And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7206 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a Reubenite or descendant of Reuben
- Derivation
- patronymic from H7205 (רְאוּבֵן);
- KJV renderings
- children of Reuben, Reubenites.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- לָ — preposition with definite article
- רֻאוּבֵנִ֨י — gentilic noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 18 times in the Hebrew Bible.Numbers 26:7Numbers 34:14Deuteronomy 3:12Deuteronomy 4:43Deuteronomy 29:7
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 רְאוּבֵנִי 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.