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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - שֵׁבֶט

שֵׁבֶט

H7626

Transliteration: shêbeṭ

Pronunciation: shay'-bet

Definition: [idiom] correction


Original: שׁבט

Transliteration: shêbeṭ

Phonetic: shay'-bet

BDB Definition:

  1. rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe
    1. rod, staff
    2. shaft (of spear, dart)
    3. club (of shepherd's implement)
    4. truncheon, sceptre (mark of authority)
    5. clan, tribe

Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off

TWOT entry: 2314a

Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine


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