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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears H7641 of grain H7641 came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 - Then behold, seven ears, H7641 thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - The thin ears H7641 swallowed up the seven plump and full ears. H7641 Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - “I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven ears, H7641 full and good, came up on a single stalk;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 - and lo, seven ears, H7641 withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - and the thin ears H7641 swallowed the seven good ears. H7641 Then I told it to the [fn]magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 - “The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears H7641 are seven years; the [fn]dreams are one and the same.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - “The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears H7641 scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Say now, ‘Shibboleth.’” H7641 But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. Thus there fell at that time 42,000 of Ephraim.

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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 glean among the ears H7641 of grain H7641 after one in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:24 - “They are exalted a little while, then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything gathered up;
Even like the heads of grain H7641 they are cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:2 - I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a [fn]flood H7641 overflows me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 - May the [fn]flood H7641 of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - It will be even like the [fn]reaper gathering the standing grain,
As his arm harvests the ears, H7641
Or it will be like one gleaning ears H7641 of grain H7641
In the valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing H7641 stream H7641 of the 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 I answered the second time and said to him, “What are the two olive [fn]branches H7641 which are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the golden oil from themselves?”
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