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# רְאוּבֵנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7206

**Reubenite** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Reubenite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7206/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רְאוּבֵנִי: adj. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7206/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. of foreg.; of individ. 1 Ch 11:42a; c. art. as subst. coll. הָרֽאוּבֵנִי Nu 26:7; 34:14 (both P), Jos 13:8 (D; + הַגָּדִי), 2 K 10:33 (+ id. + דַמְנַשִּׁי), 1 Ch 12:38 (van d. H. v 37; + הַגָּדִי + חֲצִי שֵׁבֶט מְנַשֶּׁה), 26:32 (id.); לָרֽאוּבֵנִי 1 Ch 5:6; 27:16, + וְלַגָּדִי (+ sometimes חֲצִי שֵׁבֶט מ׳) Dt 3:12, 16; 29:7; Jos 1:12; 12:6; 22:1 (all D), 1 Ch 5:26, cf. Dt 4:43.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Reubenite\[s\] (15); the Reubenite\[s\] (2); Reubenite (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.42/#tree)

עֲדִינָ֨א בֶן־שִׁיזָ֜א הָרֽאוּבֵנִ֗י רֹ֛אשׁ לָרֽאוּבֵנִ֖י וְעָלָ֥יו שְׁלוֹשִֽׁים׃ס

*Word for word:* Adina the.son of.Shiza the Reubenite a.chief of the Reubenite\[s\] and.\[were\] with him thirty.\[warriors\]

*JPS 1917:* Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him;

[Joshua 22:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.1/#tree)

אָ֚ז יִקְרָ֣א יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ לָרֽאוּבֵנִ֖י וְלַגָּדִ֑י וְלַחֲצִ֖י מַטֵּ֥ה מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* then he.summoned Joshua (to) the Reubenite\[s\] and (to) the Gadite\[s\] and.(to) the half of.the.tribe of.Manasseh

*JPS 1917:* Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7206.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7206/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).