Ῥουβήν

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Derives from

• ראובן Rᵉʼûwbên H7205 Reuben

Proper names from this root

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• ראובני Rᵉʼûwbênîy H7206 Reubenite

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Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father's malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, and was the means of saving his life when his other brothers would have put him to death (37:21, 22). It was he also who pledged his life and the life of his sons when Jacob was unwilling to let Benjamin go down into Egypt. After Jacob and his family went down into Egypt (46:8) no further mention is made of Reuben beyond what is recorded in ch. 49:3, 4.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(behold a son), Jacob's firstborn Child, (Genesis 29:32) the son of Leah. (B.C. 1753.) The notices of the patriarch Reuben give, on the whole a favorable view of his disposition. To him and him alone the preservation of Joseph's life appears to have been due and afterward he becomes responsible for his safety. (Genesis 37:18-30; 42:37) Of the repulsive crime which mars his history, and which turned the blessing of his dying father into a curse--his adulterous connection with Bilhah-- we know from the Scriptures only the fact. (Genesis 35:22) He was of an ardent, impetuous, unbalanced but not ungenerous nature; not crafty and cruel, as were Simeon and Levi, but rather, to use the metaphor of the dying patriarch, boiling up like a vessel of water over a rapid wood fire, and as quickly subsiding when the fuel was withdrawn. At the time of the migration into Egypt, Reuben's sons were four. (Genesis 46:9; 1 Chronicles 5:3) The census at Mount Sinai, (Numbers 1:20,21; 2:11) shows that at the exodus the men of the tribe above twenty years of age and fit for active warlike service numbered 46,600. The Reubenites maintained the ancient calling of their forefathers. Their cattle accompanied them in their flight from Egypt. (Exodus 12:38) Territory of the tribe .--The portion of the promised land selected by Reuben had the special name of "the Mishor," with reference possibly to its evenness. Under its modern name of the Belka it is still esteemed beyond all others by the Arab sheep-masters. It was a fine pasture-land east of the Jordan, lying between the river Arnon on the south and Gilead on the north. Though the Israelites all aided the Reubenites in conquering the land, and they in return helped their brothers to secure their own possessions, still there was always afterward a bar, a difference in feeling and habits, between the eastern and western tribes. The pile of stones which they erected on the west bank of the Jordan to mark their boundary was erected in accordance with the unalterable habits of Bedouin tribes both before and since. This act was completely misunderstood and was construed into an attempt to set up a rival altar to that of the sacred tent. No Judge, no prophet, no hero of the tribe of Reuben is handed down to us. The Reubenites disliked war clinging to their fields and pastures even when their brethren were in great distress. Being remote from the seat of the national government and of the national religion, it is not to be wondered at that the Reubenites relinquished the faith of Jehovah. The last historical notice which we possess of them, while it records this fact, records also as its natural consequence that they and the Gadites and the half-tribe Manasseh were carried off by Pul and Tiglath-pileser. (1 Chronicles 5:26)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

who sees the son; the vision of the son

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The same Greek word Ρουβην appears 87 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 83 verses in 9 books.

87

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

83

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

9 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 29:32 ρουβην
• Exodus 1:2 ρουβην
• Numbers 1:5 ρουβην
• Deuteronomy 3:12 ρουβην
• Joshua 1:12 ρουβην
• Judges 5:15 ρουβην
• 2 Kings 10:33 ρουβην
• 1 Chronicles 2:1 ρουβην
• Ezekiel 48:6 ρουβην

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4502) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 83. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 29:32 ρουβην Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
• Genesis 30:14 ρουβην Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
• Genesis 35:22 ρουβην It happened, while Israel lived 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.
• Genesis 35:23 ρουβην The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
• Genesis 37:21 ρουβην Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."
• Genesis 37:22 ρουβην Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
• Genesis 37:29 ρουβην Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
• Genesis 42:22 ρουβην Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
• Genesis 42:37 ρουβην Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "Kill my two sons, if I don't bring him to you. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again."
• Genesis 46:8 ρουβην These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
• Genesis 46:9 ρουβην The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
• Genesis 48:5 ρουβην Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
• Genesis 49:3 ρουβην "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
• Exodus 1:2 ρουβην Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
• Exodus 6:14 ρουβην These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
• Numbers 1:5 ρουβην These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
• Numbers 1:20 ρουβην The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
• Numbers 1:21 ρουβην those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
• Numbers 2:10 ρουβην "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions. The prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
• Numbers 2:16 ρουβην "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their hosts. They shall set out second.
• Numbers 7:30 ρουβην On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben
• Numbers 10:18 ρουβην The standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
• Numbers 13:4 ρουβην These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
• Numbers 16:1 ρουβην Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:
• Numbers 26:5 ρουβην Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
• Numbers 26:7 ρουβην These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
• Numbers 32:1 ρουβην Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle;
• Numbers 32:2 ρουβην the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
• Numbers 32:6 ρουβην Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
• Numbers 32:25 ρουβην The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
• Numbers 32:29 ρουβην Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
• Numbers 32:31 ρουβην The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
• Numbers 32:33 ρουβην Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.
• Numbers 32:37 ρουβην The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
• Numbers 34:14 ρουβην for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:
• Deuteronomy 3:12 ρουβην This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
• Deuteronomy 3:16 ρουβην To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
• Deuteronomy 4:43 ρουβην [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
• Deuteronomy 11:6 ρουβην and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
• Deuteronomy 27:13 ρουβην These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
• Deuteronomy 29:7 ρουβην When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:
• Deuteronomy 33:6 ρουβην Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.
• Joshua 1:12 ρουβην To the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying,
• Joshua 4:12 ρουβην The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:
• Joshua 12:6 ρουβην Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them: and Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
• Joshua 13:8 ρουβην With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them:
• Joshua 13:15 ρουβην Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
• Joshua 13:23 ρουβην The border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border [of it]. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages of it.
• Joshua 15:6 ρουβην and the border went up to Beth Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
• Joshua 18:7 ρουβην For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4502) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.