heb

shay'-bet

"shêbe?"

שֵׁבֶט

1) rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe
1a) rod, staff
1b) shaft (of spear, dart)
1c) club (of shepherd's implement)
1d) truncheon, sceptre (mark of authority)
1e) clan, tribe

from an unused root probably meaning to branch off;

people and the tribes of Israel were

to half the tribe of Manasseh spake

out of the tribes of Israel out

out of every tribe a man

out of every tribe a man

out of every tribe a man

number of the tribes of the children

number of the tribes of the children

and half the tribe of Manasseh passed