1. Reuben (person and tribe) — The proper noun Reuben, referring to Jacob's firstborn son and the Israelite tribe descended from him, including their territorial allotment in Transjordan. All four clusters represent the same name with different prepositional and conjunctional frames: bare noun (69x), ke- (as/like Reuben), le- (for/to Reuben), and waw (and-Reuben). Multilingual evidence is perfectly uniform: Arabic ra'ubiyna (رَأُوبِينَ), Spanish Ruben, Hindi ruben/ra'uben (रूबेन/रऊबेन), Korean reuben (르우벤), and Swahili Reubeni/Rubeni throughout all clusters. 72×
AR["رَأُوبَينَ","رَأُوبَيْنَ","رَأُوبَيْنُ","رَأُوبِينَ","رَأُوبِينُ","رَاؤُوبِينُ"]·ben["রূবেণ","রূবেন","রূবেনের"]·DE["Ruben","Rubens"]·EN["Reuben"]·FR["Ruben"]·heb["ראובן"]·HI["रऊबेन","रऊबेन-के","रऊबेन-ने","रूबेन","रूबेन-का","रूबेन-की","रूबेन-के","रूबेन-ने","रेऊबēन"]·ID["Ruben"]·IT["Ruben"]·jav["Rubèn","Rubén"]·KO["르우벤","르우벤과","르우벤아","르우벤의","르우벤이","르우벤이라","르우벬이","르우벼이"]·PT["R'uven","Re'uven"]·RU["Реувен","Реувена","Рувим","Рувима"]·ES["Reuven","Reuvén","Rubén"]·SW["Reuben","Reubeni","Rubeni","wa-Reubeni","za-Reubeni"]·TR["Reuben","Reuben'in","Ruben","Ruben'in"]·urd["رؤبن","رؤبن-نے","رئوبن","رئوبن-کے","راؤبن","راؤبن-نے","روبن","روبن-کے"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
רְאוּבֵן71 n.pr.m. Reuben, Ρουβην[ιν] (behold a son! but Gn 29:32 makes = רָאָה בְּעָנְיִי(!); JosAnt. i, 19, 7 al. Ρουβηλος, 𝔖 ܪܘܽܒܝܺܠ, ר׳ then perhaps = Arabic رِيبَالٌ lion, cf. Di);— 1. eldest son of Jacob and Leah Gn 29:32; 30:14 + 11 times Gn, Ex 1:2; 1 Ch 2:1; as head of family or clan Ex 6:14(×2); Nu 1:20; 26:5 (all P), 1 Ch 5:1, 3, cf. בְּנֵי אֱלִיאָב בֶּן־רְא׳ Dt 11:6. 2. as name of…