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# שִׁבֹּלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7641

**ear** — used 16 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7641/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת²: n.f. ear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7641/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ear of grain;—שׁ׳ abs. Jb 24:24 +; pl. שִׁבֳּלִים Gn 41:5 +, cstr. שִׁבֳּלֵי Zc 4:12;—ear, Gn 41:5, 6, 7(×2), 22, 23, 24(×2), 26, 27; Is 17:5(×2); Ru 2:2; Jb 24:24; transf. spike (Pusey), end of olive bough Zc 4:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of grain (7); ears of grain (6); Shibboleth (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 41:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.6/#tree)

וְהִנֵּה֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים דַּקּ֖וֹת וּשְׁדוּפֹ֣ת קָדִ֑ים צֹמְח֖וֹת אַחֲרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and there! seven ears.of.grain thin and scorched of.an.east.wind \[were\].springing.up after them

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

[Genesis 41:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.23/#tree)

וְהִנֵּה֙ שֶׁ֣בַע שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים צְנֻמ֥וֹת דַּקּ֖וֹת שְׁדֻפ֣וֹת קָדִ֑ים צֹמְח֖וֹת אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and there! seven ears.of.grain withered thin scorched of.an.east.wind \[were\].springing.up after them

*JPS 1917:* And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7641.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7641/): 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).