Tribes of Israel
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- noun
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Tribus de Israel
- The twelve tribes of Israel are traditionally descended from the sons of Jacob.
- the twelve Tribes of Israel
Examples
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The twelve tribes of Israel.
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You are those who have stood by me during my trials, and I confer on you a Kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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Perhaps you know that the tribes of Israel... - ...have decided to ask God for a king.
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The record of the lost 10 tribes of Israel.
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The tribes of Israel on the other side of the Jordan?
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The tribes of Israel had a neat trick they used to remember things.
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The tribes of Israel are about to flee from the banks of Egypt!
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God speaks to Moses and tells him to register the troops of all the tribes of Israel.
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Jeroboam ruled the 10 tribes of Israel.
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All the tribes of Israel gathered at Hebron, appearing before David and declaring that he was God's anointed.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
Twelve family groups in ancient Israel that each come from one of Jacob's sons
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward compositional combination: 'tribe' (a kin/social group) + 'of' (genitive/linking preposition) + 'Israel' (proper name), so the meaning 'the tribes belonging to Israel' is directly derivable from the constituents. This possessive/genitive construction is cross-linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
Tribes of Israel comes from the story of Jacob's twelve sons: each son grew into a large family group, a tribe of Israel. So today Tribes of Israel means the twelve ancient family groups thought to come from those sons.