Word study

Reubenite

3 Hebrew words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: reubenites, reubenite. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “reubenite” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • בֵּן bênsontranslated this way 25 times of its 4,587 uses · Strong’s H1121Noun  ·  Translated: son 1,843, sons 892, Israelites 422, descendants 358

    Numbers 2:10 On the south side, the divisions of Reuben are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur,

    Numbers 7:30 On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, the leader of the Reubenites, drew near.

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  • רְאוּבֵנִי ReûbênîReubenitetranslated this way 14 times of its 17 uses · Strong’s H7206Noun  ·  Translated: Reubenites 10, Reuben 3, belonging to the reubenites 1, along with the reubenites 1

    Deuteronomy 3:12 So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.

    Joshua 1:12 But to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,

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  • רְאוּבֵן ReûbênReubentranslated this way 2 times of its 48 uses · Strong’s H7205Noun  ·  Translated: Reuben 45, from 1, along with some reubenites 1, Reubenites 1

    Numbers 16:1 Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites — Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth — conducted

    Joshua 22:25 For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.

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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.