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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 - He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 - After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—thin and scorched by the east wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - “In my dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 - After them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads. I told this to the magicians, but none of them 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 heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said, “All right, say ‘Shibboleth.’ ” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:2 - I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 - Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms— as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”
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