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Lexicon :: Strong's H7641 - šibōleṯ

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שִׁבֹּלֶת
Transliteration
šibōleṯ
Pronunciation
shib-bole
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as שֹׁבֶל (H7640), a stream (as flowing)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2316b,2316c

Strong’s Definitions

שִׁבֹּל shibbôl, shib-bole; or (feminine) שִׁבֹּלֶת shibbôleth; 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's H7641 in the following manner: ears (11x), ears of corn (3x), branches (1x), channel (1x), floods (1x), Shibboleth (1x), waterflood (with H4325) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's H7641 in the following manner: ears (11x), ears of corn (3x), branches (1x), channel (1x), floods (1x), Shibboleth (1x), waterflood (with H4325) (1x).

  1. flowing stream

  2. ear (of grain), head of grain

    1. as growing

    2. cluster

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שִׁבֹּל shibbôl, shib-bole; or (feminine) שִׁבֹּלֶת shibbôleth; 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.
STRONGS H7641: Abbreviations
† I. שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine flowing stream; — שׁ׳ absolute Psalm 69:3, as test of dialect Judges 12:6 (compare סִבֹּלֶת and GFM); construct מַיִם שׁ׳ Psalm 69:16, הַנָּהָר שׁ׳ Isaiah 27:12.

† II. שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine ear of grain; — שׁ׳ absolute Job 24:21 +; plural שִׁבֳּלִים Genesis 41:5 +, construct שִׁבֳּלֵי Zechariah 4:12; — ear, Genesis 41:5, 6, 7: Genesis 41:7; Genesis 41:22; Genesis 41:23; Genesis 41:24 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:26, 27; Isaiah 17:5 (twice in verse); Ruth 2:2; Job 24:24; transf. spike (Pusey), end of olive bough Zechariah 4:12.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

41:5; 41:5; 41:6; 41:7; 41:7; 41:22; 41:23; 41:24; 41:26; 41:27

Judges

12:6

Ruth

2:2

Job

24:21; 24:24

Psalms

69:3; 69:16

Isaiah

17:5; 27:12

Zechariah

4:12; 4:12

H7641

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7641 matches the Hebrew שִׁבֹּלֶת (šibōleṯ),
which occurs 19 times in 16 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - Then he fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 - Then behold, seven ears [of grain], thin and dried up by the east wind, sprouted after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - Then the thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - “I saw in my [second] dream, seven ears [of grain], plump and good, growing on a single stalk;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 - and lo, seven [other] ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. Now I told this to the magicians and soothsayers, but there was no one who could explain it [to me].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 - “The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the [two] dreams are one [and the same].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - “The seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years; and also the seven thin ears, dried up and scorched by the east wind, they are seven years of famine and hunger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said to him, “Then say ‘Shibboleth.’” And he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and [fn]glean among the ears of grain after one [of the reapers] in whose sight I may find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 -

“They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone;

Moreover, they are brought low and like everything [they are] gathered up and taken out of the way;

Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:2 -

I have sunk in deep mire, where there is no foothold;

I have come into deep waters, where a flood overwhelms me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 -

Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,

Nor the deep waters swallow me up,

Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 -

“And it will be like the reaper gathering the standing grain,

As his arm harvests the ears of grain;

Yes, it will be like one gleaning ears of grain

In the [fertile] Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 -

In that day the LORD will thresh [out His grain] from the flowing stream of the River [Euphrates] to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - And a second time I said to him, “What are these two olive branches which are beside the two golden pipes by which the golden oil is emptied?”
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