Strong's H7626

שֵׁבֶט

Transliteration

shêbeṭ

Pronunciation

shay'-bet

Definition

a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan

KJV usage

[idiom] correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.

Derivation

from an unused root probably meaning to branch off;

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.