# H7626 שֵׁבֶט

שֵׁבֶט (shêbeṭ), Strong’s H7626: a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan KJV: [idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre…

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*shêbeṭ* — 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.

Occurs 189 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- שֵׁ֫בֶט 189 n.m. 1. rod, staff, club, sceptre. 2. tribe

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 49:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=10) — The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs…
- [Genesis 49:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=16) — “Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- [Genesis 49:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=28) — All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed…
- [Exodus 21:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=20) — “If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
- [Exodus 24:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/24?v=4) — Moses wrote all the LORD’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain…
- [Exodus 28:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=21) — The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the…
- [Exodus 39:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=14) — The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings…
- [Leviticus 27:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/27?v=32) — All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD.
- [Numbers 4:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=18) — “Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
- [Numbers 18:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/18?v=2) — Bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, near with you, that they may be joined to you…