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Scofield Reference Index
• Tribes
Thompson Chain Reference
• Tribe
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Zebulun, the Tribe of
• Tribes of Israel, the
• Simeon, the Tribe of
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Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Tribe
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Tribes
• Manasseh, Tribe of
• Judah, Tribe and Kingdom
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Zebulun, Tribe of
• Tribe
• Simeon, the Tribe of
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Tribes of Israel, the
• Half Tribe
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Tribes of Israel
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Tribes
• Tribe
King James Dictionary
• Tribe
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Twelve Tribes
• Tribes, the Twelve
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Tribe of Juda
• Tribe of Ephraim
• Tribe of Benjamin
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Tribes
Smith Bible Dictionary
• ad The Tribe of
• Benjamin The Tribe of
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Tribe
• Tribe
Webster Dictionary
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Bongo (Tribe)
• Cheyenne (Tribe)
• Creek (Tribe)
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Tribe
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Judah Tribe of
• Manasseh Tribe of
• Tribes
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Judah, Tribe and Territory of.
• Lost Tribes
• Manasseh, Tribe of
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Lost Tribes
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Jewish Tribe
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Asher, Tribe and Territory
• Issachar, Tribe of
• Judah, Tribe of
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Lexicons
• ܫܰܒ݂ܛܳܐ
• ܫܰܪܒ݁ܬ݂ܳܐ
Berry's NT Synonyms
• Tribe, Family, Household
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Tribe, Family
• δωδεκάφυλον
• φυλή
• אֻמָּה
• חֲצִי , חֵצִי
• מַחֲצִית
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TRIBE (φυλή) is used mostly in the special OT sense of an Israelitish tribe, composed of the descendants of one of the sons of Jacob. The prophetess Anna belonged to the tribe of Asher (Luke 2:36). The Messianic claims of Jesus were strengthened by the fact that He sprang from the royal tribe of Judah (Hebrews 7:14). Galilee comprised the territories allotted in OT times to the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali (Matthew 4:13; Matthew 4:15). The promise to the Twelve Apostles that they should judge the twelve tribes of Israel (Matthew 19:28 || Luke 22:30) may be regarded as an instance of the way in which Jesus sometimes expressed His teaching in the language of popular apocalyptic conceptions of the Kingdom of God (cf. Revelation 7:4 ff.). Less probable is the explanation of Weiss, that ‘their judging the twelve tribes is only the reverse side of their being sent to the twelve tribes, which are exposed to judgment just because the offer of salvation was made to them through the Apostles’ (NT Theol., English translation i. 154). In Matthew 24:30 (quoted from Zechariah 12:12) ‘tribe’ has the wider sense of a branch of the human race.

James Patrick.