Strong’s H5451 · Hebrew
סִבֹּלֶת
çibbôleth · sib-bo'-leth
Origin for שִׁבֹּל (H7641);
Meaning an ear of grain
In the King James Version Sibboleth.
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Judges 12:6Then 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.