What are the twelve names of Israel?

Answer 1

If you're referring to the 12 tribes of Israel, they are: Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin. They are named after each of Jacob's sons.

Answer 2

The tribes Jacob blessed were

1. Reuben (Re'uven, ראובן)
2. Simeon (Shim'on, שמעון)
3. Levi (Levi, לוי)
4. Judah (Yehuda, יהודה)
5. Issachar (Yisachar, יששכר)
6. Zebulun (Zvulun, זבולון)
7. Dan (Dan, דן)
8. Naphtali (Naftali, נפתלי)
9. Gad (Gad, גד)
10. Asher (Asher, אשר)
11. Joseph (Josef, יוסף)
12. Benjamin. (Binyamin, בנימין)

Jacob elevated the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh (the two sons of Joseph and his Egyptian wife Asenat...Osnat in Modern Hebrew) to the status of full tribes in their own right, replacing the tribe of Joseph.

A: There are traditionally twelve Hebrew tribes recognised, representing each of the sons of Jacob or Israel. However, the names of the tribes vary somewhat through the Old Testament narrative, suggesting a more fluid tribal history than generally recognised.

Genesis 49 lists twelve tribes:

1. Reuben
2. Judah
3. Levi
4. Benjamin
5. Joseph
6. Zebulun
7. Issachar
8. Gad
9. Dan
10. Naphtali
11. Asher
12. Simeon

Deuteronomy 33 lists eleven tribes:

1. Reuben
2. Judah
3. Levi
4. Benjamin
5. Joseph (with both Ephraim and Manasseh named)
6. Zebulun
7. Issachar
8. Gad
9. Dan
10. Naphtali
11. Asher.

The Song of Deborah (Judges 5:2-31), which honours those tribes of Israel that joined in battle against a Canaanite coalition and castigates those that held back, names ten tribes as:

1. Reuben
2. Benjamin
3. Ephraim
4. Manasseh
5. Zebulon
6. Issachar
7. Dan
8. Naphtali
9. Asher
10. Gilead, to which we should add Levi.

This list notably omits Judah, as well as Simeon and Gad, but has Gilead.

Either there were at different times more than twelve tribes, or biblical tradition was unsure of just what tribes existed in the earliest times of Hebrew history.

Answer 3

They are the names of 10 of Jacob's 12 sons plus 2 grandsons (Joseph's twin sons). Some etymological information is given in the Torah itself (see Genesis ch.29-30).

Reuvain - is related to the word "to see " (plural imperative, "look!").

Shim'on - one who hears.

Levi - accompany.

Yehudah - he will praise.

Yissachar - there is reward.

Zevulun - a domicile.

Gad - fortune.

Asher - happy.

Dan - he judged.

Naphtali - is related to words meaning "prayer" and "entwining."

Yoseph - he will add.

Binyamin - son of the right hand.

Answer 4

1. Shammua, of the tribe of Reuben

2. Shaphat, of the tribe of Simeon

3. Caleb, of the tribe of Judah

4. Igal, of the tribe of Issachar

5. Oshea, of the tribe of Ephraim (name later changed to Joshua)

6. Palti, of the tribe of Benjamin

7. Gaddiel of the tribe of Zebulun

8. Gaddi of the tribe of Joseph-Manasseh

9. Ammiel of the tribe of Dan

10. Sethur of the tribe of Asher

11. Nahbi of the tribe of Naphtali

12. Geuel of the tribe of Gad

Note: The tribe of Joseph was split between his 2 sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. In essence Ephraim was half a tribe and Manasseh was half a tribe, together making one wole tribe of Joseph. This was a special blessings pronounced by God though Jacob (Genesis 48:5,6)

Answer 5

In 719 BCE, 10 Tribes were deported to Assyria. They apparently completely assimilated and did not return to Israel.

After that, tribal distinctions disappeared, except for the Levites and the Judeans. Today, most Jews are from the tribe of Judah, and a few are from the tribe of Levi. (Jews from the Levi tribe know so because of family tradition).

• Answer 2

The Tribes of Israel today are the Jewish people. The great majority of Jews today, some 80% or so, are descended from the tribe of Judah (plus converts and descendants of converts). The remaining 20% include Levites (from the tribe of Levi), Cohanim (also a part of the Levites), the entire Tribe of Benjamin, and a small percentage from every one of the remaining tribes. (When the Ten Tribes were carried off into Assyria and didn't return, some of them had already mixed into the tribe of Judah before that, through marriage and through large-scale migration [e.g. 2 Chronicles 15:9]. Also, the Talmud relates [Megillah 14b] that, one century after the Ten Tribes were exiled [and their location was still known], Jeremiah journeyed to where they were and brought some of them back to Judea. Thus, today's Jewry includes a small percentage of every one of the Lost Tribes. [See for example the Talmud, Pesachim 4a.])

As to the location of the bulk of the lost Ten Tribes, because of the lack of a continuous tradition in this particular matter, we can only speculate. Some well-known claims, such as the suggestion that the Native Americans or African Americans are the Lost Israelite Tribes, we can confidently dismiss offhand; and DNA analyses have also debunked such ideas. Other claims, such as that which has been suggested concerning the Pathani (Pashtun), are less far-fetched but must for the time being remain nothing more than a guess.

Answer 6

The Tribes of Israel today are the Jewish people. The great majority of Jews today, some 80% or so, are descended from the tribe of Judah (plus converts and descendants of converts). The remaining 20% include Levites (from the tribe of Levi), Cohanim (also a part of the Levites), the entire Tribe of Benjamin, and a small percentage from every one of the remaining tribes. See also the Related Links.

Link: Jewish history timeline

Link: Are Hebrews Israelites and Jews the same people?

Link: Debunking the "From the Khazars" canard

Answer 7

Reuven, Shimon, Zevulun, Yissakhar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Asher, Naftali, Yosef. Note that Yosef was divided into 2 tribes being his sons Efrayim and Menasheh whom were part of the 10 tribes.

Answer 8

Asher

Benjamin

Dan

Gad

Issacher

Joseph

Judah

Levi

Naphtali

Reuben

Simeon

Zebulun

Answer 9

They are the descendents of the twelve sons of Jacob, a.k.a. Israel.

Answer 10

They are named after Israel's twelve sons, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.