How to say "tribe (esp. of Israel)" in Arabic

Sibṭ looks like a letter-for-letter match with Hebrew shevet (שבט), and the sound match itself is regular — Hebrew ש (shin) regularly answers Arabic س, as in shalom/salām; only שׂ (sin) answers ش. Even so, Jeffery's classic study of the Quran's foreign vocabulary lists asbāṭ among the terms borrowed straight from the Hebrew Bible, and indeed Arabic all but reserves the word for one context — asbāṭ Banī Isrāʾīl, 'the tribes of the children of Israel' — while everyday tribes (Bedouin and otherwise) get the genuinely native word qabīla (قبيلة).