A Gentile is someone who is not a Jew, that is a descendant of any of the twelve tribes of Israel. If someone's parents have no trace of jewish ancestry at all, then that person is definitely a Gentile.
However, in Judaic law a person's jewishness is automatically passed on through the maternal line that is, through the mothers: "once a jew, always a jew".
This means that even if the mothers have converted from Judaism to another faith, they are still regarded under the jewish "Law of Return" as legally being jews, but if the fathers have married non-jewesses and have converted from Judaism to another faith, then his children are all Gentile (unless one of his sons or his sons' descendants then marries a jewess, in which case all theirchildren are also regarded as being jews).
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∙ 14y agoThe Gentiles were people who were not part of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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The Twelve Tribes of Judah are more properly called the Twelve Tribes of Israel (since they are all descended from Israel, not Judah). Each of the Tribes has its own symbol, relating to its history. Examples include the Lion as the symbol of Judah, the Sailboat as the symbol of Zebulun, the Tree as the symbol of Asher, and the Wolf as the symbol of Benjamin. The most common symbol representing all twelve tribes is the breastplate of the High Priest adorned with twelve semi-precious and precious stones representing the twelve tribes. This is called Avnei Ha-Khoshan in Hebrew. A link to an image of this is provided.
I am assuming that you are asking if the twelve disciples came from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. First of all there were many disciples but Jesus did select twelve to be the closest to him. All twelve tribes are not represented. We know this because there were two sets of brothers (Andrew and Peter, James and John) so that the maximum number of tribes represented is ten.
Yerav'am (Jeroboam).
Judah
Twelve Tribes - band - was created in 1998.
Twelve Tribes communities was created in 1972.
There are no pictures of the twelve tribes of Judah. The twelve tribes of Judah were said to exist after 1200 BC, before photography.
The twelve tribes are the descendants of Jacob's 12 sons and are the ancestors of the Jews.
Twelve.
It was Jacob.