And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe (phylēs | φυλῆς | gen sg fem), language, people, and nation.

Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe (phylēs | φυλῆς | gen sg fem) of Judah, the root of David, has won the victory so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the tribes (phylai | φυλαί | nom pl fem) of earth will wail on account of him. So shall it be! Amen.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes (phylais | φυλαῖς | dat pl fem) in the dispersion: Greetings.

For it is perfectly clear that our Lord is descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe (phylēn | φυλήν | acc sg fem) Moses said nothing about priests.

For the one of whom these things are said belongs to a different tribe (phylēs | φυλῆς | gen sg fem), from which no one has ever served at the altar.

circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the nation of Israel, of the tribe (phylēs | φυλῆς | gen sg fem) of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews. In regard to the law, I was a Pharisee;

So I ask, has God repudiated his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe (phylēs | φυλῆς | gen sg fem) of Benjamin.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the tribe (phylēs | φυλῆς | gen sg fem) of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes (phylas | φυλάς | acc pl fem) of Israel.