TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Twelve Tribes of Israel mean? 

• TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (noun)
  The noun TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL has 1 sense:

1. twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob

  Familiarity information: TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Tribes of Israel; Twelve Tribes of Israel

Hypernyms ("Twelve Tribes of Israel" is a kind of...):

clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe (group of people related by blood or marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Twelve Tribes of Israel"):

Lost Tribes (the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin))