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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 -

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and good, came up on one stalk.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 -

After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 -

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, full ones. Then Pharaoh woke up, and it was only a dream.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 -

“In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stalk.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 -

“After them, seven heads of grain ​— ​withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind ​— ​sprouted up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 -

“The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 -

“The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 -

“The seven thin, sickly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind are seven years of famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 -

they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and executed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim died.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 -

Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone with whom I find favor? ”

Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 -

They are exalted for a moment, then gone;

they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.[fn]

They wither like heads of grain.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:2 -

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;

I have come into deep water,

and a flood sweeps over me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 -

Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me

or the deep swallow me up;

don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 -

It will be as if a reaper had gathered standing grain —

his arm harvesting the heads of grain —

and as if one had gleaned heads of grain

in Rephaim Valley.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 -

On that day

the LORD will thresh grain from the Euphrates River

as far as the Wadi of Egypt,

and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 -

And I questioned him further, “What are the two streams[fn] of the olive trees, from which the golden oil is pouring through the two golden conduits? ”

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