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title: סִבֹּלֶת — ear of wheat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סִבֹּלֶת (5451), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: ear of wheat. BDB 1906: n.f. flowing stream. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סִבֹּלֶת

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«סִבֹּלֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ear of wheat** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5451 · **BDB:** סִבֹּ֫לֶת

### Glosses

Sibboleth (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סִבֹּלֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5451/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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