# רְאוּבֵן (reuven)

Israeli respelling: reu-ven. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7205. 68 Old Testament occurrences.

Reuben, a son of Jacob

King James renderings: Reuben.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/reuven-h7205

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 29:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/29/32) — And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now there…
- [Genesis 30:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/14) — And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to…
- [Genesis 35:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/22) — And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now…
- [Genesis 35:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/23) — The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
- [Genesis 37:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/21) — And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.
- [Genesis 37:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/22) — And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid…
- [Genesis 37:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/29) — And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
- [Genesis 42:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/22) — And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, als…
- [Genesis 42:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/37) — And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to t…
- [Genesis 46:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/8) — And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
- [Genesis 46:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/9) — And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
- [Genesis 48:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/48/5) — And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as…
- [Genesis 49:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/3) — Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
- [Exodus 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/1/2) — Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
- [Exodus 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/6/14) — These be the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the…
- [Numbers 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/5) — And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- [Numbers 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/20) — And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to th…
- [Numbers 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/21) — Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
- [Numbers 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/10) — On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be…
- [Numbers 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/2/16) — All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout the…
- [Numbers 7:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/7/30) — On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, did offer:
- [Numbers 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/10/18) — And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- [Numbers 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/4) — And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
- [Numbers 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/1) — Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons…
- [Numbers 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/5) — Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the…
- [Numbers 32:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/1) — 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…
- [Numbers 32:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/2) — The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregati…
- [Numbers 32:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/6) — And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
- [Numbers 32:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/25) — And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
- [Numbers 32:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/29) — And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, befo…
- [Numbers 32:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/31) — And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
- [Numbers 32:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/33) — And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph…
- [Numbers 32:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/37) — And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
- [Deuteronomy 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/6) — And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and th…
- [Deuteronomy 27:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/13) — And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
- [Deuteronomy 33:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/6) — Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
- [Joshua 4:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/4/12) — And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Mo…
- [Joshua 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/15) — And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
- [Joshua 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/23) — And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their…
- [Joshua 15:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/15/6) — And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of R…
- [Joshua 18:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/7) — But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Man…
- [Joshua 18:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/17) — And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, a…
- [Joshua 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/20/8) — And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramo…
- [Joshua 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/7) — The children of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twel…
- [Joshua 21:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/36) — And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,
- [Joshua 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/9) — And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of…
- [Joshua 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/10) — And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half…
- [Joshua 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/11) — And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an a…
- [Joshua 22:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/13) — And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land o…
- [Joshua 22:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/15) — And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they…
- [Joshua 22:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/21) — Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Is…
- [Joshua 22:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/25) — For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall…
- [Joshua 22:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/30) — And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words…
- [Joshua 22:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/31) — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, T…
- [Joshua 22:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/32) — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the…
- [Joshua 22:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/33) — And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, t…
- [Joshua 22:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/34) — And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
- [Judges 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/15) — And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reu…
- [Judges 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/16) — Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of hear…
- [1 Chronicles 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/2/1) — These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
- [1 Chronicles 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/1) — Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright wa…
- [1 Chronicles 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/3) — The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
- [1 Chronicles 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/5/18) — The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with…
- [1 Chronicles 6:63](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/6/63) — Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of t…
- [1 Chronicles 6:78](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/6/78) — And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness wi…
- [Ezekiel 48:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/6) — And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
- [Ezekiel 48:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/7) — And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.
- [Ezekiel 48:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/48/31) — And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, o…