Strong H7641H7641Hשִׁבֹּ֫לֶת

Shibboleth

Transliteration: shibbôl shibbôleth
Pronunciation: {shib-bole'} shib-bo'-leth
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

means: growing ear (of grain), flowing stream
used as a password

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 biblical story

Shibboleth

A Hebrew word used to identify Ephraimites

Shibboleth was a Hebrew word used by the Gileadites to identify Ephraimites, who could not pronounce it correctly, resulting in the death of 42,000 Ephraimites (<ref="Judges 12:6">Judges 12:6</ref>).

In the Bible

Strong H7641H appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

shibboleth1

First verses

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.

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