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רְאוּבֵן
- Transliteration
- Rᵉʼûwbên
- Pronunciation
- reh-oo-bane'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 72
Glosses
Reuben, Reuben.
Lexicon definition
Reuben, a son of Jacob
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Reuben
TRIBE OF. This tribe, having much cattle, solicited and obtained from Moses possessions east of the Jordan; Reuben is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “who sees the son; the vision of the son.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- H7205, G4502
- Hebrew
- רְאוּבֵן · Rᵉʼûwbên
- Greek
- Ῥουβήν · Rhoubēn
- Name meaning
- who sees the son; the vision of the son According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
H7205
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Ῥουβήν
- Transliteration
- Rhoubēn
- Language
- Greek
- Part of speech
- N:N-M-P
- Indexed occurrences
- 1
Glosses
Reuben
Lexicon definition
Ῥουβήν, ὁ indecl., (Heb. רְאוּבֵן), Reuben: Rev.7:5.† (AS)
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
רְאוּבֵן
- Transliteration
- Rᵉʼûwbên
- Pronunciation
- reh-oo-bane'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 72
Glosses
Reuben.
Lexicon definition
Reuben, a son of Jacob
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Ῥουβήν
- Transliteration
- Rhoubḗn
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 1
Glosses
Reuben
Lexicon definition
Ruben (i.e. Reuben), an Israelite
Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Reuben
who sees the son; the vision of the son
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
REUBEN
TRIBE OF. This tribe, having much cattle, solicited and obtained from Moses possessions east of the Jordan; by which river it was separated from the main body of Israel: it was, in consequence, exposed to various inroads and oppressions from which the western tribes were free; and it was among the first carried into captivity by Tiglath pileser, 1 Chron. v, 26.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Reuben
Indexed occurrences: 51
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All Scripture references73 references
Genesis 13
Exodus 2
Numbers 19
Deuteronomy 3
Joshua 21
Judges 2
2 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 8
Ezekiel 3
Revelation 1
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
REUBEN
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for REUBEN.
Indexed references: 11
Scripture references:
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Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Reuben
Meaning:
who sees the son; the vision of the son
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Topic
REUBEN
Nave’s Topical Bible references for REUBEN.
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Birthright
(1.) This word denotes the special privileges and advantages belonging to the first-born son among the Jews. He became the priest of the family. Thus Reuben was the first-born of the patriarchs, and so the priesthood of the tribes belonged to him. That honour was, however, transferred by God from Reuben to Levi (Num. 3:12, 13; 8:18). (2.) The first-born son had allotted to him also a double portion of the paternal inheritance (Deut. 21:15-17). Reuben was, because of his undutiful conduct, deprived of his birth-right (Gen. 49:4; 1 Chr. 5:1). Esau transferred his birth-right to Jacob (Gen. 25:33). (3.) The first-born inherited the judicial authority of his father, whatever it might be (2 Chr. 21:3). By divine appointment, however, David excluded Adonijah in favour of Solomon. (4.) The Jews attached a sacred importance to the rank of "first-born" and "first-begotten" as applied to the Messiah (Rom. 8:29; Col. 1:18; Heb. 1:4-6). As first-born he has an inheritance superior to his brethren, and is the alone true priest.
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Mount of the valley
(Josh. 13:19), a district in the east of Jordan, in the territory of Reuben. The "valley" here was probably the Ghor or valley of the Jordan, and hence the "mount" would be the hilly region in the north end of the Dead Sea. (See [423]ZARETH-SHAHAR.)
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Refuge, Cities of
Were six in number (Num. 35). 1. On the west of Jordan were (1) Kadesh, in Naphtali; (2) Shechem, in Mount Ephraim; (3) Hebron, in Judah. 2. On the east of Jordan were, (1) Golan, in Bashan; (2) Ramoth-Gilead, in Gad; and (3) Bezer, in Reuben. (See under each of these names.)
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Reuben, Tribe of
At the Exodus numbered 46,500 male adults, from twenty years old and upwards (Num. 1:20, 21), and at the close of the wilderness wanderings they numbered only 43,730 (26:7). This tribe united with that of Gad in asking permission to settle in the "land of Gilead," "on the other side of Jordan" (32:1-5). The lot assigned to Reuben was the smallest of the lots given to the trans-Jordanic tribes. It extended from the Arnon, in the south along the coast of the Dead Sea to its northern end, where the Jordan flows into it (Josh. 13:15-21, 23). It thus embraced the original kingdom of Sihon. Reuben is "to the eastern tribes what Simeon is to the western. Unstable as water,' he vanishes away into a mere Arabian tribe. His men are few;' it is all he can do to live and not die.' We hear of nothing beyond the multiplication of their cattle in the land of Gilead, their spoils of camels fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand' (1 Chr. 5:9, 10, 20, 21). In the great struggles of the nation he never took part. The complaint against him in the song of Deborah is the summary of his whole history. By the streams of Reuben,' i.e., by the fresh streams which descend from the eastern hills into the Jordan and the Dead Sea, on whose banks the Bedouin chiefs met then as now to debate, in the streams' of Reuben great were the desires'", i.e., resolutions which were never carried out, the people idly resting among their flocks as if it were a time of peace (Judg. 5:15, 16). Stanley's Sinai and Palestine. All the three tribes on the east of Jordan at length fell into complete apostasy, and the time of retribution came. God "stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria," to carry them away, the first of the tribes, into captivity (1 Chr. 5:25, 26).
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Reuben
who sees the son; the vision of the son
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Shammua
Heard. (1.) One of the spies sent out by Moses to search the land (Num. 13:4). He represented the tribe of Reuben. (2.) One of David's sons (1 Chr. 14:4; 3:5, "Shimea;" 2 Sam. 5:14). (3.) A Levite under Nehemiah (11:17).
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