| |
| | Tribe - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia |
 | | Both words mean "staff," and perhaps "company led by chief with staff" (OHL, 641) is the origin of the meaning "tribe." In the Apocrypha and New Testament always for phule, from phuo, "beget," with dodekaphulon, "twelve tribes," in Acts 26:7. |
 | | Further, in Isaiah 19:13, shebhet is used of the "tribes" (nomes?) of Egypt and phule in Matthew 24:30 of "all the tribes of the earth," but otherwise shebhet, matteh and phule refer exclusively to the tribes of Israel. |
 | | In 2 Samuel 7:7 for shibhete, "tribes," read shophete, "judges" (of the Revised Version margin). |
| studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8908 (166 words) |
|