Word Summary
sibboleth: probably an ear (of wheat, etc.)
Original Word: סִבֹּלֶתTransliteration: sibboleth
Phonetic Spelling: (sib-bo'-leth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: probably an ear (of wheat, etc.)
Meaning: probably an ear (of wheat, etcetera)
Strong's Concordance
Sibboleth
For shibbol; an ear of grain -- Sibboleth.
see HEBREW shibbol
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5451. sibboleth
סִבֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine probably ear of wheat, etc., only Judges 12:6 dialect form of II. שִׁבֹּלֶת q. v. (> = late word שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת tide, flood); compare MarquardtZAW viii (1888), 151 ff. but also GFM Bu.