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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 - And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 - And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 - Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the 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 are seven years; the dreams are one.

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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 empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.

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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 field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall 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, and then are gone;
they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
they are cut off like the heads of grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:2 - I sink in deep mire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 - Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or the pit close its mouth over me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day from the river Euphrates[fn] to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:12 - And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil[fn] is poured out?”
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