Strong H76414 sensesשִׁבֹּ֫לֶת

ear · stream · Euphrates · Shibboleth

Transliteration
shibbôl shibbôleth
Pronunciation
{shib-bole'} shib-bo'-leth

The 4 senses of Strong H7641

The lexicon tells 4 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H7641 appears in 16 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. earH7641Bear (of grain), head of grain12 verses · 5 books
  2. streamH7641Aflowing stream2 verses · Psalms
  3. EuphratesH7641GMajor river in ancient Near East; boundary of Promised Land1 verse · Isaiah
  4. ShibbolethH7641HA Hebrew word used to identify Ephraimites1 verse · Judges

General definition

From the same as H7640; a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy a branch : - {branch} {channel} ear (of {corn}) ([water-]) {flood} Shibboleth. Compare H5451 .

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • ear8
  • corn3
  • branch1
  • channel1
  • flood1
  • let1
  • shibboleth1

First verses

  1. Genesis 41:5
    And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
  2. Genesis 41:6
    And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
  3. Genesis 41:7
    And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
  4. Genesis 41:22
    And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
  5. Genesis 41:23
    And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
  6. Genesis 41:24
    And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
  7. Genesis 41:26
    The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
  8. Genesis 41:27
    And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.
  9. Judges 12:6
    Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
  10. Ruth 2:2
    And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
  11. Job 24:24
    They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
  12. Psalms 69:2
    I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  13. Psalms 69:15
    Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
  14. Isaiah 17:5
    And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
  15. Isaiah 27:12
    And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
  16. Zechariah 4:12
    And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?