Shibboleth: meaning of the name
Shibboleth means “Sibboleth, ear of corn; stream or flood.”
Shibboleth in Scripture
“Shibboleth” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.
- 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.