Bible Dictionary: Clan

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.

2. (n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

Greek

5443. phule -- a clan or tribe
... a clan or tribe. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: phule Phonetic
Spelling: (foo-lay') Short Definition: a tribe, race Definition: a tribe or race ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4940. mishpachah -- a clan
... 4939, 4940. mishpachah. 4941 . a clan. Transliteration: mishpachah Phonetic
Spelling: (mish-paw-khaw') Short Definition: families. ...
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7626. shebet -- rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe
... meaning to branch off; a scion, ie (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing,
fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) Or (figuratively) a clan -- X correction, dart ...
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441b. alluph -- a chief, chiliarch
... Word Origin from eleph Definition a chief, chiliarch NASB Word Usage chief (43),
chiefs (14), clan (1), clans (2). 441a, 441b. alluph. 442 . Strong's Numbers
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1905. Hagri -- a tribe East of the Jordan, also a member of the ...
... Or (prolonged) Hagris {hag-ree'}; perhaps patronymically from Hagar; a Hagrite or
member of a certain Arabian clan -- Hagarene, Hagarite, Haggeri. ...
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7625. shebat -- a tribe
... tribes (1). tribe. (Aramaic) corresponding to shebet; a clan -- tribe. see HEBREW
shebet. 7624, 7625. shebat. 7626 . Strong's Numbers.
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505. eleph -- a thousand
... 7,700* (2), 70,000* (4), 72,000* (1), 74,600* (2), 75,000* (1), 76,500* (1), 8,580*
(1), 8,600* (1), 80,000* (3), 800,000* (1), 87,000* (1), clan (1), clans (2 ...
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Library

Obedience to the Last Command
... There is in the Church of Christ no privileged clan to which alone belongs the honor,
nor any servile clan on which alone rests the duty, of carrying the ...
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On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
... There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really
narrow is the clique. The men of the clan live together ...
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Deified Devilry
... But this set of Vellalars had as a clan risen above the popular superstition, and
the demoralising presence of these women was not allowed to profane either ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter xxi deified devilry.htm

The Cost of a Lie
... Then David went from there and escaped to the stronghold of Adullam. When his brothers
and all his father's clan heard of it, they went down there to him. ...
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Called to Swatow
... days. On one occasion we were visiting a small town, and found that the
inhabitants had captured a wealthy man of another clan. ...
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Knox and Queen Mary (Continued): 1563-1564
... Darnley, Moray, Lennox were all assassinated, when their day came, though the feeblest
of the three, Darnley, had a powerful clan to take up his feud. ...
/.../lang/john knox and the reformation/chapter xvi knox and queen.htm

Christianity Misunderstood by Men of Science.
... life a man's life is limited not to his own individuality, but to certain societies
and classes of individuals: to the tribe, the family, the clan, the nation ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter iv christianity misunderstood by.htm

The People among whom we Labour (Continued).
... When the clan system was in full force among the Scotch Highlanders, there were
broken men, men who had left the clan or were expelled from it, and these were ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xxix the people among.htm

Our Expectation
... for all the family to meet; and though your name may be "Smith" or "Brown," yet
you feel there is some importance in your name, when all your clan have met ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/our expectation.htm

The Struggle for Life
... In the same way, the primeval men have no other object than to keep the
clan alive. It is so ordered by Nature that in striving ...
/.../the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter vi the struggle for.htm

Thesaurus

Clan (96 Occurrences)
... tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the
same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald ...
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Persians (6 Occurrences)
... Persian Parsa, name of both country and people; does not occur in Avesta): I. AFFINITY
1. Three Classes 2. Tribal and Clan Divisions 3. Achemenian Dynasty II. ...
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Anah (10 Occurrences)
... a'-na (`anah, meaning uncertain; a Horite clan-name (Genesis 36)): (1) Mother of
Aholibamah, one of the wives of Esau and daughter of Zibeon (compare Genesis 36 ...
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Caleb (39 Occurrences)
... In 1 Samuel 30:14 Caleb is undoubtedly the name of a clan which is, moreover,
differentiated from Judah. Modern scholars therefore ...
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Genealogy (29 Occurrences)
... This is natural, either as the personification of the clan or nation under the name
of its chief, or chief progenitor, or as the designation of the individual ...
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Heber (13 Occurrences)
... he'-ber (chebher, "associate" or, possibly, "enchanter"; Eber): A name occurring
several times in the Old Testament as the name of an individual or of a clan. ...
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Gideon (45 Occurrences)
... or "hewer"): 1. His Family and Home: Also named Jerubbaal (Judges 6:32) and
Jerubbesheth (2 Samuel 11:21), youngest son of Joash, of the clan of Abiezer in ...
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Government (20 Occurrences)
... A clan is a collection of families under a common chieftain, chosen for his personal
qualifications, such as prowess and generous hospitality. ...
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Kenezite (3 Occurrences)
... the King James Version in Genesis 15:19 and the Revised Version (British and American)
uniformly, spell "Kenizzite." The Kenezites were the clan whose name ...
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Judicial (2 Occurrences)
... ju-dish'-al, joo-dish'-al: Among the ancient Israelites in the pre-Canaanite period
disputes within the family or clan or tribe would be settled by the natural ...
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Bible Concordance

Clan (96 Occurrences)

Genesis 24:38 but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
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Genesis 24:40 He said to me,'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
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Exodus 6:25 Eleazar Aaron's son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
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Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
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Leviticus 25:41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
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Leviticus 25:47 "'If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;
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Leviticus 25:49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
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Numbers 2:34 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers' houses.
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Numbers 26:5 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
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Numbers 26:6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
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Numbers 26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
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Numbers 26:13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
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Numbers 26:15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
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Numbers 26:16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
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Numbers 26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
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Numbers 26:20 The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
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Numbers 26:21 The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
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Numbers 26:23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
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Numbers 26:24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
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Numbers 26:26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
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Numbers 26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
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Numbers 26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
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Numbers 26:31 and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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Numbers 26:32 and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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Numbers 26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
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Numbers 26:36 These are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
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Numbers 26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
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Numbers 26:39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
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Numbers 26:40 The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
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Numbers 26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
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Numbers 26:44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.
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Numbers 26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
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Numbers 26:48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
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Numbers 26:49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
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Numbers 26:57 These are those who were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
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Numbers 26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.
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Numbers 27:4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father."
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Numbers 27:11 If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of Israel a statute and ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.'"
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Numbers 36:1 The heads of the fathers' houses of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel:
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Numbers 36:6 This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.
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Numbers 36:8 Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
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Numbers 36:12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
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Deuteronomy 29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
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Joshua 7:14 "'In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.
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Joshua 7:17 He brought near the family of Judah; and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.
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Joshua 13:15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
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Joshua 13:23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.
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Joshua 13:24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
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Joshua 13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.
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Joshua 13:29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
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Joshua 13:31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
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Joshua 15:1 The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
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Joshua 15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
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Joshua 16:5 This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
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Joshua 16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families;
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Joshua 18:11 The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
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Joshua 18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
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Joshua 19:1 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
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Joshua 19:8 and all the villages that were around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
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Joshua 19:10 The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
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Joshua 19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
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Joshua 19:17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
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Joshua 19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
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Joshua 19:24 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
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Joshua 19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
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Joshua 19:32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
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Joshua 19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.
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Joshua 19:40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
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Joshua 19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
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Joshua 21:4 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Joshua 21:7 The children of Merari according to their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.
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Judges 4:17 However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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Judges 6:15 And he said to him, "Pray, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manas'seh, and I am the least in my family."
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Judges 9:1 Now Abim'elech the son of Jerubba'al went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,
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Judges 12:9 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
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Judges 13:2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
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Judges 17:7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
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Judges 18:11 There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
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Judges 18:19 They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"
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Ruth 2:1 Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
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Ruth 2:3 She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
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1 Samuel 9:21 Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do you speak to me like this?"
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1 Samuel 10:21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.
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1 Samuel 18:18 David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"
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1 Samuel 20:6 If your father miss me at all, then say,'David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'
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2 Samuel 16:5 When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came.
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1 Chronicles 4:27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.
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1 Chronicles 6:54 Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
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1 Chronicles 6:62 To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
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1 Chronicles 6:63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
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1 Chronicles 6:71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;
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Isaiah 60:22 The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.
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Jeremiah 3:14 Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;
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Zechariah 9:7 I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
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Zechariah 12:12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
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Zechariah 12:13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
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Subtopics

Clan

Related Terms

Persians (6 Occurrences)

Anah (10 Occurrences)

Caleb (39 Occurrences)

Genealogy (29 Occurrences)

Heber (13 Occurrences)

Gideon (45 Occurrences)

Government (20 Occurrences)

Kenezite (3 Occurrences)