tribe

Greek, Noun, Female

φυλή, ῆς, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for; מַטֶּה, also for שֵׁבֶט, מִשְׁפָּחָה, etc;] a body of men united by kinship or habitation, a clan or tribe: of the tribes of Israel, Mat.19:28, Luk.2:36 22:30, Act.13:21, Rom.11:1, Php.3:5, Heb.7:13-14, Jas.1:1, Rev.5:5 7:4-8 21:12; of the tribes of the earth, the peoples and nations, Mat.24:30, Rev.1:7 5:9 7:9 11:9 13:7 14:6. (AS)

tribe

Greek, Noun, Female

φῡλή, ἡ, (φύω) properly, like{φῦλον}, a race, tribe; but accusative to [Refs 4th c.BC+] a union formed in an organized community (whether πόλις or ἔθνος): hence, tribe, i.e. I) a body of men united I.1) by supposed ties of blood and descent, clan, such as the three Dorian tribes, Rhetra cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the four Ionic tribes, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Laconian, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the old Roman, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; of the Persian, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Jewish, [LXX] (but also of subdivisions of the tribe (σκῆπτρον),[LXX+NT] I.2) by local habitation, such as the ten local tribes at Athens formed by Cleisthenes, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; or those formed by Servius at Rome, φ. τοπικαί, opposed to γενικαί, [Refs 5th c.BC+] I.3) subdivision of the priests in each Egyptian temple, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] II) military contingent furnished by a tribe, among the Athenians, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II.2) representatives of a tribe, on political bodies, φυλῆς πρυτανευούσης, προεδρευούσης, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] III) of things, ={γένος}, kind, species, κατὰ φυλὰς διεκρίνομεν τὰ ἔπιπλα [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Greek

Noun Feminine

an offshoot, i.e. race or clan; kindred, tribe; from g5453 (φύω) (compare g5444 (φύλλον));