Lexicon Reuben: "behold a son!" oldest son of Jacob, also his desc. Original Word: רְאוּבֵןPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Reuben Phonetic Spelling: (reh-oo-bane') Short Definition: Reuben NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom raah and benDefinition"behold a son!" oldest son of Jacob, also his desc. NASB TranslationReuben (72).
Brown-Driver-Briggs רְאוּבֵן71 proper name, masculine Reuben, Ρουβην[ιν] ( be-hold a son! but Genesis 29:32 makes = רָאָה בְּעָנְיִי (!); Jos Ant. i. 19, 7 and others Ρουβηλος, ᵑ6  , ׳ר then perhaps = Arabic  , lion, compare Di); — 1 eldest son of Jacob and Leah Genesis 29:32; Genesis 30:14 11t. Genesis; Exodus 1:2; 1 Chronicles 2:1; as head of family or clan Exodus 6:14 (twice in verse); Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 1 Chronicles 5:1,3, compare ׳בְּנֵי אֱלִיאָב בֶּןרְֿא Deuteronomy 11:6. 2 as name of clan or tribe Judges 5:15,16; Deuteronomy 27:13; Joshua 18:7 ( +גָּד; both D), Deuteronomy 33:6 (poem), Ezekiel 48:6,7,31; Numbers 1:5 (P); so ׳מַטֵּה ר Numbers 1:21; Numbers 13:4; Joshua 20:8; Joshua 21:7 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:48; 1 Chronicles 6:63, ׳מַחֲנֵה ר Numbers 2:10,16; Numbers 10:18 (all P); ׳בְּנֵי ר, as tribe, Numbers 16:l b Numbers 32:37 (both J E), Numbers 2:10; Numbers 7:20; Numbers 26:5; Joshua 13:23 (twice in verse) (all P), also (+ Gad and often Manasseh) Numbers 32:1,2,6,25 (JE), Joshua 4:12 (D), Numbers 32:29,31,33; Joshua 22:9 11t. 22 (all P), compare 1 Chronicles 5:18; ׳בֶּןרֿ as tribe Joshua 15:6; Joshua 18:7 (both P), מַטֵּה ׳בְנֵיֿ ר Joshua 13:15 (P).
Strong's Reuben From the imperative of ra'ah and ben; see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob -- Reuben. see HEBREW ra'ah see HEBREW ben |
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