סִבֹּלֶתçibbôleth

probably ear of wheat, etc.

Pronunciation: sib-bo'-leth · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5451

Meanings

(Judges 12:6)

Same root

שִׁבֹּלshibbôl · H7641a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Judges 12:6 they would tell him to say “Shibboleth.” If he was from Ephraim, he would say “Sibboleth,” because people from Ephraim cannot pronounce the word correctly. Then they would take him and kill him at the shallow crossings of the Jordan. In all, 42,000 Ephraimites were killed at that time.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).