Re: [tied] S(h)ibboleth

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 14451
Date: 2002-08-22

Ah, I forgot. The word <s^ibbo:let> [pronounced [sibbo:let] by the Ephraimites) is said to have meant 'stream, torrent' in Hebrew (or 'ear of corn', according to another tradition).
 
Piotr
 
 
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Subject: Re: [tied] S(h)ibboleth

[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.