שִׁבֹּלshibbôl
שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת: flowing stream (Psalms 69:3; Judges 12:6; Psalms 69:16; Isaiah 27:12)
Pronunciation: shib-bole · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7641
Meanings
שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת: ear, of grain (Job 24:21; Genesis 41:5; Zechariah 4:12; Genesis 41:6; Genesis 41:7)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 41:5 But he fell asleep again and had a second dream. This time he saw seven heads of grain, plump and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.
- Genesis 41:6 Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were shriveled and withered by the east wind.
- Genesis 41:7 And these thin heads swallowed up the seven plump, well-formed heads! Then Pharaoh woke up again and realized it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:22 “In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.
- Genesis 41:23 Then seven more heads of grain appeared, but these were blighted, shriveled, and withered by the east wind.
- Genesis 41:24 And the shriveled heads swallowed the seven healthy heads. I told these dreams to the magicians, but no one could tell me what they mean.”
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).