Word meanings
Senses and individuals
- ear H7641B 15
- stream H7641A 2
- Euphrates H7641G · a Name of 1
- Shibboleth H7641H 1
Strong's dictionary
or (feminine) שִׁבֹּלֶת; from the same as שֹׁבֶל; 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 סִבֹּלֶת.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Every occurrence
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Judges 12:6 שִׁבֹּ֜לֶת shi.Bo.let · A person, place or thing
then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.
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