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# סִבֹּלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5451

**ear of wheat** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ear of wheat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5451/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִבֹּ֫לֶת: n.f. flowing stream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5451/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. prob. flowing stream, only Ju 12:6 dial. form of i. שִׁבֹּלֶת (\> ear of wheat); cf. MarquardtZAW viii (1888), 151 ff. but also GFM Bu; v. I. שִׁבֹּלֶת.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sibboleth (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 12:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.6/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ לוֹ֩ אֱמָר־נָ֨א שִׁבֹּ֜לֶת וַיֹּ֣אמֶר סִבֹּ֗לֶת וְלֹ֤א יָכִין֙ לְדַבֵּ֣ר כֵּ֔ן וַיֹּאחֲז֣וּ אוֹת֔וֹ וַיִּשְׁחָט֖וּהוּ אֶל־מַעְבְּר֣וֹת הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן וַיִּפֹּ֞ל בָּעֵ֤ת הַהִיא֙ מֵֽאֶפְרַ֔יִם אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁנַ֖יִם אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* and they.said to him say please Shibboleth and he.said Sibboleth and not he.gave.attention to speak right and they.seized him and they slaughtered.him to the.fords of the.Jordan and it.fell at the time (the) that of Ephraim forty and two thousand

*JPS 1917:* then said they unto him: 'Say now Shibboleth'; and he said 'Sibboleth'; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5451.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5451/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).