Strong’s Hebrew
H5451 — cibboleth
The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.
סִבֹּלֶת
cibboleth — pronounced sib-bo'-leth
for 7641; an ear of grain:--Sibboleth. see H07641
1 occurrence in the KJV.
Judges 12:6
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
