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Num. 1:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And these are the names
shem (Hebrew #8034)
an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
KJV usage: + base, (in-)fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.
Pronounce: shame
Origin: a primitive word (perhaps rather from 7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare 8064)
of the men
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
that shall stand
`amad (Hebrew #5975)
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Pronounce: aw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
with you: of the tribe of Reuben
R'uwben (Hebrew #7205)
see ye a son; Reuben, a son of Jacob
KJV usage: Reuben.
Pronounce: reh-oo-bane'
Origin: from the imperative of 7200 and 1121
; Elizur
'Eleytsuwr (Hebrew #468)
God of (the) rock; Elitsur, an Israelite
KJV usage: Elizur.
Pronounce: el-ee-tsoor'
Origin: from 410 and 6697
d the son
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Shedeur
Shdey'uwr (Hebrew #7707)
spreader of light; Shedejur, an Israelite
KJV usage: Shedeur.
Pronounce: shed-ay-oor'
Origin: from the same as 7704 and 217
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Elizur.
Num. 2:10• 10On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben, {i}and the prince of the sons of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur;{/i} (Num. 2:10)
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Num. 7:30• 30{i}On the fourth day, the prince of the children of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur.{/i} (Num. 7:30)
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Num. 10:18• 18{i}And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts, and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur;{/i} (Num. 10:18)
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Gen. 29:32‑35• 32And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben ; for she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
33And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I [am] hated, he hath therefore given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon .
34And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called Levi .
35And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah . And she ceased from bearing.
(Gen. 29:32‑35)
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Gen. 30:5‑20• 5And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and also heard my voice, and given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan .
7And Bilhah Rachel's bondmaid again conceived and bore Jacob a second son.
8And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali .
9When Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her bond-maid, and gave her to Jacob as wife.
10And Zilpah Leah's bondmaid bore Jacob a son.
11And Leah said, What fortune! and she called his name Gad .
12And Zilpah Leah's bondmaid bore Jacob a second son.
13And Leah said, With my happiness; for the daughters will call me happy! and she called his name Asher .
14And Reuben went out in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
15And she said to her, Is it little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.
16And when Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17And God hearkened to Leah; and she bore Jacob a fifth son.
18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my bond-maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar .
19And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
20and Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun .
(Gen. 30:5‑20)
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Gen. 35:17‑26• 17And it came to pass when it went hard in her bearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also [is] a son for thee.
18And it came to pass as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Benoni ; but his father called him Benjamin .
19And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave, which [is] the pillar of Rachel's grave to [this] day.
21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder .
22And it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine; and Israel heard of [it]. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
23the sons of Leah, Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;
24the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin;
25and the sons of Bilhah Rachel's handmaid, Dan and Naphtali;
26and the sons of Zilpah Leah's handmaid, Gad and Asher. These [are] the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.
(Gen. 35:17‑26)
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Gen. 46:8‑24• 8And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob's first-born, Reuben;
9and the sons of Reuben, Enoch and Phallu and Hezron and Carmi;
10and the sons of Simeon, Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Saul son of a Canaanitish woman.
11And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath and Merari;
12and the sons of Judah, Er and Onan and Shelah, and Pherez and Zarah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
13And the sons of Issachar, Tola and Puah, and Job and Shimron;
14and the sons of Zebulun, Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
15These [are] the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and daughters [were] thirty-three.
16And the sons of Gad, Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;
17and the sons of Asher, Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister, and the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel.
18These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.
19The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, Joseph and Benjamin.
20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath bore to him, daughter of Potiphera, priest in On;
21and the sons of Benjamin, Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
22These [are] the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.
23And the sons of Dan, Hushim;
24and the sons of Naphtali, Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
(Gen. 46:8‑24)
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Gen. 49:1‑33• 1And Jacob called his sons and said, Gather yourselves together, and I will tell you what will befall you at the end of days.
2Assemble yourselves together and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father.
3Reuben, thou [art] my first-born, my might, and the firstfruits of my vigour, excellency of dignity and excellency of strength.
4Bubbling up as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: then defiledst thou [it]; he went up to my bed.
5Simeon and Levi [are] brethren, weapons of violence their swords.
6My soul, come not into their council; mine honour, be not united to their assembly; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will houghed oxen.
7Cursed [be] their anger, for [it was] fierce, and their rage, for [it was] cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8Judah, thee will thy brethren praise: thy hand [will be] on the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children will bow down to thee.
9Judah [is] a lion's whelp. From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stoopeth, he coucheth as a lion, and as a lioness: who will rouse him up?
10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and to him will be the obedience of peoples.
11He bindeth his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine; he washeth his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes;
12his eyes [are] red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13Zebulun shall dwell at the breach of the seas, and he [shall be] for a haven of ships; and his border [shall be] upon Zidon.
14Issachar [is] a bony ass, couching between two hurdles;
15and he saw rest that [it was] good, and the land that [it was] pleasant; and he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a tributary servant.
16Dan shall judge his people, as another of the tribes of Israel.
17Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider falleth backward.
18I wait for thy salvation, O Jehovah.
19Gad—troops shall press upon him; but he shall press upon their heel.
20Out of Asher his bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
21Naphtali [is] a hind let loose; he giveth goodly words.
22Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain; daughters shoot over the wall.
23The archers have provoked, and shot at and hated him;
24but his bow abideth firm, and the arms of his hands are supple by the hands of the mighty One of Jacob. From thence [is] the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel;
25from the God of thy father, he will help thee, and from the Almighty, he will bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, with blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, with blessings of the breast and of the womb.
26The blessings of thy father surpass the blessings of my progenitors unto the bounds of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
27Benjamin [is] a wolf that raveneth; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and in the evening he shall divide the spoil.
28All these [are] the twelve tribes of Israel, and this [is] what their father spake to them; and he blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29And he charged them and said to them, I am gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30in the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah which [is] opposite to Mamre in the land of Canaan; which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite with the field for a possession of a burying-place.
31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32The purchase of the field, and of the cave that [is] in it, [was] from the children of Heth.
33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his people.
(Gen. 49:1‑33)
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Ex. 1:2‑5• 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
4Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and Joseph was in Egypt [already].
(Ex. 1:2‑5)
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Deut. 33:1‑29• 1{i}And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.{/i}
2{i}And he said,{/i}
3Yea, he loveth the peoples:{HR}All his saints are in thy hand;{HR}And they sat down at thy feet,{HR}Each receive thy decisions.
4{i}Moses commanded us a law,{HR}The inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.{HR}{/i}
5{i}And he was king in Jeshurun,{HR}When the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together{/i}.
6Let Reuben live and not die, and his men be few .
7And this is for Judah; and he said,{HR}Hear, O Jehovah, the voice of Judah,{HR}And bring him unto his people:{HR}Let his hands be numerous for him,{HR}And be thou an help from his adversaries.
8And of Levi he said,{HR}Thy Thummim and thy Urim are for thy holy one,{HR}Whom thou didst prove at Massah,{HR}With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
9Who said of his father and of his mother,{HR}I have not seen him;{HR}Neither did he acknowledge his brethren,{HR}Nor know his own children;{HR}For they kept thy word,{HR}And guarded thy covenant.
10They shall teach thy judgments to Jacob,{HR}And thy law to Israel:{HR}They shall put incense before thee,{HR}And whole burnt-offering upon thine altar .
11Bless, Jehovah, his force, and accept the work of his hands:{HR}Strike through the loins of those that rise up against him,{HR}And of those that hate him, that they rise not again.
12Of Benjamin he said,{HR}The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell in safety by him;{HR}He shall harbour him all the day,{HR}And he shall dwell between his shoulders.
13And of Joseph he said,{HR}Blessed of Jehovah be his land for the precious things of the heavens,{HR}For the dew and for the deep couching beneath,
14And for the precious things brought forth by the sun,{HR}And for the precious things driven out by the moon,
15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains,{HR}And for the precious things of the lasting hills,
16And the good pleasure of him that dwelt in the bush:{HR}Let it come on the head of Joseph,{HR}And on the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
17The first-born of his herd is honour to him,{HR}And his horns the horns of a buffalo:{HR}With them he shall push peoples together to the ends of the earth;{HR}And they are the myriads of Ephraim,{HR}And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18And of Zebulun he said,{HR}Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out;{HR}And, Issachar, in thy tents.
19They shall call the peoples to the mountain;{HR}There they shall sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness;{HR}For they shall suck the abundance of the seas,{HR}Even treasures hidden in the sand.
20And of Gad he said,{HR}Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad:{HR}He dwelleth as a lioness,{HR}And teareth the arm,{HR}Also the crown of the head.
21And he provideth the first part for himself;{HR}For there is the portion covered for the lawgiver;{HR}And he came with the heads of the people;{HR}He did the righteousness of Jehovah,{HR}And his judgments with Israel.
22And of Dan he said,{HR}Dan is a lion's whelp;{HR}He shall leap from Bashan.
23And of Naphtali he said,{HR}O Naphtali, satisfied with good will,{HR}And full of the blessing of Jehovah,{HR}Possess thou the west and the south.
24And of Asher he said,{HR}Asher, blessed among sons,{HR}Let him be acceptable to his brethren,{HR}And dip his foot in oil:
25Thy shoes iron and copper;{HR}And thy strength as thy days.
26There is none like the God of Jeshurun,{HR}Riding the heavens for thy help,{HR}And for his excellency the skies.
27The God of ages is a refuge,{HR}And underneath the everlasting arms;{HR}And he shall drive away the enemy from thy presence,{HR}And say, Destroy!
28Israel dwelleth in safety,{HR}The fountain of Jacob on a land of corn and new wine;{HR}His heavens also drop down dew.
29Happy thou, O Israel: who is like thee,{HR}O people saved by Jehovah, the shield of thy help,{HR}And who is the sword of thy excellency!{HR}And thy enemies shall lie to thee;{HR}And thou shalt tread on their high places.
(Deut. 33:1‑29)
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Rev. 7:4‑8• 4And I heard the number of the sealed(a hundred and forty-four thousand sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel;
5out of the tribe of Juda twelve thousand sealed; out of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand;
6out of the tribe of Aser twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Nepthalim twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Manasses twelve thousand;
7out of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand;
8out of the tribe of Zabulon twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand; out of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand sealed.
(Rev. 7:4‑8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

W. Kelly Translation

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And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)