Reuben

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Reuben
       n 1: (Old Testment) a son of Jacob and forefather of one of the
            tribes of Israel
       2: a hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and
          sauerkraut on rye bread



From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Reuben
     behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32).
     His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon
     him his dying father's malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to
     Joseph, and was the means of saving his life when his other
     brothers would have put him to death (37:21,22). It was he also
     who pledged his life and the life of his sons when Jacob was
     unwilling to let Benjamin go down into Egypt. After Jacob and
     his family went down into Egypt (46:8) no further mention is
     made of Reuben beyond what is recorded in ch. 49:3,4.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Reuben, who sees the son; the vision of the son