{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7626",
  "lemma": "שֵׁבֶט",
  "transliteration": "shêbeṭ",
  "definition": "a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan",
  "kjv": "[idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.",
  "occurrences": 189,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "שֵׁ֫בֶט 189 n.m. 1. rod, staff, club, sceptre. 2. tribe"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 49:10",
      "text": "The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 49:16",
      "text": "“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 49:28",
      "text": "All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 21:20",
      "text": "“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 24:4",
      "text": "Moses wrote all the LORD’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 28:21",
      "text": "The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 39:14",
      "text": "The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 27:32",
      "text": "All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/27?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:18",
      "text": "“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 18:2",
      "text": "Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/18?v=2"
    }
  ],
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