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SHIBBOLETH

(Heb. šibbōleṯ)

A word (“ear of grain” or “torrent”) used as a test by Gileadite guards to detect Ephraimites attempting to cross the Jordan (Judg. 12:5-6). Because they spoke a distinct dialect of Hebrew, the Ephraimites would pronounce the word’s initial šin (a sibilant) as the consonant sin (a spirant, originally that [ṯ], which merged with šin at an earlier time in Palestinian usage than in Transjordanian), producing sibbōleṯ (written, as in the originally unpointed Hebrew, with a samech to distinguish the sounds).






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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