Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Shibboleth
Sibboleth, ear of corn; stream or flood
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Shibboleth
“an ear of corn,” was a word which the Gileadites used as the test of an Ephraimite. For the Ephraimites could not, from disuse, pronounce the Hebrew letter _shin_; Shibboleth is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “Sibboleth, ear of corn; stream or flood.” This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
SHIBBOLETH
“an ear of corn,” was a word which the Gileadites used as the test of an Ephraimite. For the Ephraimites could not, from disuse, pronounce the Hebrew letter _shin_; therefore, they said Sibboleth instead of Shibboleth, Judges xii, 6. The Greeks, says Hartley, have not the sound _sh_ in their language: hence they are liable to be detected, like the Ephraimites. I was struck with this circumstance, in learning Turkish from a Greek tutor; _pasha_, he pronounced _pasa_; _shimdi_, he called _simdi_; _Dervish_, _Dervis_, &c. _Shibboleth_ he would, of course, pronounce _Sibboleth_.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Shibboleth
Indexed occurrences: 1
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Judges 1
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
SHIBBOLETH
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Nave’s Topical Bible references for SHIBBOLETH.
Indexed references: 1
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Shibboleth
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Sibboleth, ear of corn; stream or flood
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
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