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# shibboleth

«shibboleth» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A word or custom that shows who belongs to a group, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A word or custom that shows who belongs to a group, often a test of identity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shibboleth/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Judges, the men of Gilead used the word "Shibboleth" to catch Ephraimites, who could not say the "sh" sound and said "Sibboleth." Interpretation: Tradition uses the story as a warning of how tribal quarrels turned deadly, and the word now means any test of belonging.

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shibboleth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shibboleth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.