Shibboleth

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Shibboleth

Postby dreams » Mon Nov 17, 2003 11:58 pm

Meaning: A password. Jargon known only by the initiate.

Biblical Meaning: Hebrew for "Ear of Corn".

Judges 12:5-6
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; [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.

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