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  2. Tribe of Ephraim - Wikipedia

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    Map of Ephraim, 17th century Dutch map. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim (Hebrew: אֶפְרַיִם, ʾEp̄rayim, in pausa: אֶפְרָיִם, ʾEp̄rāyim) was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh, together with Ephraim, formed the Tribe of Joseph. It is one of the Ten Lost Tribes. The etymology of the ...

  3. Zebulun - Wikipedia

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    The Torah states that Zebulun had three sons – Sered, Elon, and Jahleel – each the eponymous founder of a clan. They risked their lives on the battlefield with Naphtali from Judges 5 's Song of Deborah and Barak : "Zebulun is a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also -- on high places of the field."

  4. Zion - Wikipedia

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    Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn; [a] Biblical Greek: Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [3] [4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole. The name is found in 2 Samuel , one of the books of the Tanakh dated to approximately the mid-6th century BCE.

  5. Lion of Judah - Wikipedia

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    Emblem of Jerusalem. The biblical Judah (in Hebrew: Yehuda) is the eponymous ancestor of the Tribe of Judah, which is traditionally symbolized by a lion.In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob ("Israel") gave that symbol to this tribe when he refers to his son Judah as a Gur Aryeh' גּוּר אַרְיֵה יְהוּדָה, "Young Lion" (Genesis 49:9) when blessing him. [3]

  6. Jebusites - Wikipedia

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    Lipinski also suggests that more than one clan or tribe bore similar names and thus the Jebusites and Yabusi'um may have been separate people altogether. [ 16 ] In the Amarna letters, mention is made that the contemporaneous king of Jerusalem was named Abdi-Heba , which is a theophoric name invoking a Hurrian goddess named Ḫepat .

  7. Mpologoma Clan - Wikipedia

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    After eating the lion meat, they started vomiting and also suffered severe stomach pains which led them to declaring never to eat lion's meat again. Their children too were to never eat lion's meat again hence the emerging of the Mpologoma Clan.It is also believed that if they ate the lion's meat, they would develop worse complications compared ...

  8. Cherokee clans - Wikipedia

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    Cherokee born outside of a clan or outsiders who were taken into the tribe in ancient times had to be adopted into a clan by a clan mother. If the person was a woman who had born a Cherokee child and was married to a Cherokee man, she could be taken into a new clan. Her husband was required to leave his clan and live with her in her new clan.

  9. Kenites - Wikipedia

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    The tribe listed as "Cinaedocolpitae" (the Kinaidokolpitai) is located in the northwest of the map. The Kenites are a clan mentioned in the Bible as having settled on the southern border of the Kingdom of Judah. In I Samuel 30:29, in the time of David, the Kenites settled among the tribe of Judah. [better source needed]