Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What is the original Hebrew name for different tribes?

I know the Bible calls them Israelites, Canaanites, Hittites, etc, but what is the actual Hebrew words for them? Do they call them just "Israels" or "Canaans" or whatever, or what word is used in the original hebrew?

What is the original Hebrew name for different tribes?
There are 12 tribes called in hebrew shevatim or written like this שבתים


1.דן


2. נפתלי


3.יהודה


4.לוי


5.שמון


6.רובנ


7.יוסף


8.בנימין


9.גד


10. אשר


11.זוולון


12. יששכר


english:


1.Dan


2.Naftali


3. Yehuda


4. Levi


5.Shimon


6. Reuven


7. Yosef


8. Benyamin


9.Gad


10. Ashear


11. Zevulun


12. Yissaachar


Hope this helps
Reply:TRIBE


A group of people, comprising a number of families or clans, who are united by race or custom under the same leaders.


The Hebrew words often rendered “tribe” (mat‧teh′ and she′vet) both mean “rod” or “staff.” (Ex 7:12; Pr 13:24) Apparently these words came to signify “tribe” in the sense of a group of persons led by a chief or chieftains carrying a scepter or staff. (Compare Nu 17:2-6.) In most cases where the context shows that either word has the thought of “tribe,” it is used in regard to one of the tribes of Israel, such as “the tribe [mat‧teh′] of Gad” or “the tribe [she′vet] of the Levites.” (Jos 13:24, 33) However, the ‘tribe that God redeemed as his inheritance,’ mentioned at Psalm 74:2, evidently refers to the entire nation of Israel, speaking of it as a “tribe” or people distinct from other nations and peoples. And the term “tribe” at Numbers 4:18 seems to be used in a more restrictive sense, as applied to the Kohathites who were a subdivision of the tribe of Levi. The Egyptian “tribes” of Isaiah 19:13 must apply to certain categories of people, whether according to region, caste, or something else.


The Greek term phy‧le′ (rendered “tribe”) refers to a group of people united by common descent and also to a subdivision thereof, that is, a clan or tribe. The word is often used in the Christian Greek Scriptures in regard to the tribes of the nation of Israel. (Ac 13:21; Ro 11:1; Php 3:5; Heb 7:13, 14; Re 5:5) In expressions like “out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,” “tribe” seems to mean a group of people related by common descent. (Re 5:9) Such expressions, then, are exhaustive, referring to all people, whether viewed according to tribes of interrelated individuals, language groups, large segments of mankind, or political divisions. (Re 7:9; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6) Also, phy‧le′ appears in the expression “all the tribes of the earth” at Revelation 1:7, which evidently means all people on earth, for the verse also says “every eye will see him.”—Compare Mt 24:30.
Reply:Which specific terms are you looking for?





Israelites are generally called "B'nai Yisrael," or 'the children of Israel,' but are also often differentiated by their individual tribe's names. For the other nations, it is the Hebrew spelling of the name of the land, with the "-im" ending to modify it and show that it is referring to a people.
Reply:Well, for the ones that you mentioned, in MODERN Hebrew (as opposed to "old/Bible" Hebrew):


Israelis=Yisraelim


Canaanites=Knaanim


Hittites=can't remember, but I don't think it's really the same...


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