'Clan' in the Bible

I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.

You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.

And you may buy also from the children of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed, they may be as property for you.

“If a foreigner or temporary resident living among you prospers, but your brother living near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner living among you, or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself.

The Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each man by his clan and by his ancestral house.

The Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan came from Gershon; these were the Gershonite clans.

Now the leader of the clan of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.

The Amramite clan, the Izharite clan, the Hebronite clan, and the Uzzielite clan came from Kohath; these were the Kohathites.

The clan of the descendants of Kohath will encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the south.

Now the leader of the clan of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

The Mahlite clan and the Mushite clan came from Merari; these were the Merarite clans.

Now the leader of the clan of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail. These were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

"You must not cut off the tribe of the clan of the Kohathites from the midst of the Levites.

This [is] the work of the clan of the descendants of the Gershonites in the tent of assembly, and their responsibility [lies] {under the direction} of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

This [is] the work of the clan of the descendants of Merari, for all their work in the tent of assembly {under the direction} of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest."

Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed -- the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman -- was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan of the Simeonites.

The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader over the people of a clan of Midian.

Reuben was the firstborn of Israel.Reuben’s descendants:the Hanochite clan from Hanoch;the Palluite clan from Pallu;

the Hezronite clan from Hezron;the Carmite clan from Carmi.

Simeon’s descendants by their clans:the Nemuelite clan from Nemuel;the Jaminite clan from Jamin;the Jachinite clan from Jachin;

the Zerahite clan from Zerah;the Shaulite clan from Shaul.

Gad’s descendants by their clans:the Zephonite clan from Zephon;the Haggite clan from Haggi;the Shunite clan from Shuni;

the Oznite clan from Ozni;the Erite clan from Eri;

the Arodite clan from Arod;the Arelite clan from Areli.

Judah’s descendants by their clans:the Shelanite clan from Shelah;the Perezite clan from Perez;the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

The descendants of Perez:the Hezronite clan from Hezron;the Hamulite clan from Hamul.

Issachar’s descendants by their clans:the Tolaite clan from Tola;the Punite clan from Puvah;

the Jashubite clan from Jashub;the Shimronite clan from Shimron.

Zebulun’s descendants by their clans:the Seredite clan from Sered;the Elonite clan from Elon;the Jahleelite clan from Jahleel.

Manasseh’s descendants:the Machirite clan from Machir.Machir fathered Gilead;the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

These were Gilead’s descendants:the Iezerite clan from Iezer;the Helekite clan from Helek;

the Asrielite clan from Asriel;the Shechemite clan from Shechem;

the Shemidaite clan from Shemida;the Hepherite clan from Hepher;

These were Ephraim’s descendants by their clans:the Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah;the Becherite clan from Becher;the Tahanite clan from Tahan.

These were Shuthelah’s descendants:the Eranite clan from Eran.

Benjamin’s descendants by their clans:the Belaite clan from Bela;the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel;the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram;

the Shuphamite clan from Shupham;the Huphamite clan from Hupham.

Bela’s descendants from Ard and Naaman:the Ardite clan from Ard;the Naamite clan from Naaman.

These were Dan’s descendants by their clans:the Shuhamite clan from Shuham.These were the clans of Dan by their clans.

Asher’s descendants by their clans:the Imnite clan from Imnah;the Ishvite clan from Ishvi;the Beriite clan from Beriah.

From Beriah’s descendants:the Heberite clan from Heber;the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.

Naphtali’s descendants by their clans:the Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel;the Gunite clan from Guni;

the Jezerite clan from Jezer;the Shillemite clan from Shillem.

These were the Levites registered by their clans:the Gershonite clan from Gershon;the Kohathite clan from Kohath;the Merarite clan from Merari.

These were the Levite family groups:the Libnite clan,the Hebronite clan,the Mahlite clan,the Mushite clan,and the Korahite clan.Kohath was the ancestor of Amram.

Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clan of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these [were] the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, and Tirzah.

Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan? Since he had no son, give us property among our father’s brothers.”

If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the Lord commanded Moses.”

So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled in it.

You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.

The family leaders from the clan of the descendants of Gilead—the son of Machir, son of Manasseh—who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were over the Israelite families.

This is what the Lord has commanded concerning Zelophehad’s daughters: They may marry anyone they like provided they marry within a clan of their ancestral tribe.

Any daughter who possesses an inheritance from an Israelite tribe must marry someone from the clan of her ancestral tribe, so that each of the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

They married men from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.

Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

In the morning you must present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord selects is to come forward clan by clan. The clan the Lord selects is to come forward family by family. The family the Lord selects is to come forward man by man.

He had the clans of Judah come forward, and the Zerahite clan was selected. He had the Zerahite clan come forward by heads of families, and Zabdi was selected.

When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders and clan leaders who accompanied him heard the defense of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, they were satisfied.

And he said to him, "Pray, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manas'seh, and I am the least in my family."

So the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon [and empowered him]; and he blew a trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called together [as a militia] to follow him.

But he said to them, “What have I done now [that is so significant] in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning (leftovers) of the grapes of [your tribe of] Ephraim better than the vintage (entire harvest) of [my clan of] Abiezer?

Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and spoke to them and to all his maternal grandfather’s clan, saying,

He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

There was a young man, a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who resided within the clan of Judah.

The descendants of Dan sent from the whole number of their clan five {capable men} from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go, explore the land." And they went to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and they spent the night there.

Six hundred men from the clan of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed [with] weapons of war, set out from there.

And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?"

Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.

(Now the man's name was Elimelech, his wife was Naomi, and his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were of the clan of Ephrath from Bethlehem in Judah.) They entered the region of Moab and settled there.

Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side of the family named Boaz. He was a wealthy, prominent man from the clan of Elimelech.

So Ruth went and gathered grain in the fields behind the harvesters. Now she just happened to end up in the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

Saul responded, “Am I not a Benjaminite from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe? So why have you said something like this to me?”

Then he had the tribe of Benjamin come forward by its clans, and the Matrite clan was selected. Finally, Saul son of Kish was selected. But when they searched for him, they could not find him.

Then David responded, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”

If your father misses me at all, say, ‘David urgently requested my permission to quickly go to his town Bethlehem for an annual sacrifice there involving the whole clan.’

He said, ‘Please let me go because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the town, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if you are pleased with me, let me go so I can see my brothers.’ That’s why he didn’t come to the king’s table.”

Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant and said, ‘Hand over the one who killed his brother so we may put him to death for the life of the brother he murdered. We will destroy the heir!’ They would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on earth.”

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters. But his brothers did not have many sons, so their whole clan was not as numerous as the sons of Judah.

Their clan leaders were: Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah,

Abdiel's son Ahi, who was the grandson of Guni, was chief in their clan.

These are the clans of the descendants of Levi according to their ancestry: Gershom's clan included his son Libni, his son Jahath, his son Zimmah,

These are the settlement locations allotted within their borders to Aaron's descendants in the Kohathite clan since the lot was cast in their favor first.

To the Gershomites [were given] out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands.

These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

Jahath was the first and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons [not enough for a father’s house or clan], so they were [counted together] as one father’s household, one working group.

So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}. {He became angry} at Job because he justified himself rather than God,

He rejected the clan of Joseph; and the tribe of Ephraim he did not choose.

The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, closing over Abiram's clan.

“The smallest one will become a clan,And the least one a mighty nation.I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”

"Return, apostate children," {declares} Yahweh. "For {I am your master}, and I will take you one from a city and two from a clan, and I will bring you [to] Zion.

And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.

I put containers full of wine and cups in front of the members of the Rechabite clan and told them, "Drink the wine!"

Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you, Israelites, against the entire clan that I brought from the land of Egypt:

I will remove the blood from their mouthsand the detestable thingsfrom between their teeth.Then they too will become a remnant for our God;they will become like a clan in Judahand Ekron like the Jebusites.

The land will mourn, clan by clan -- the clan of the royal household of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the clan of the family of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves;

the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves --

and all those clans remaining, {each clan by itself}, and their wives by themselves.'"

And if the clan of Egypt will not go up and come in, on them will be that plague Yahweh inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.