SHIBBOLETH

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SHIBBOLETH , a Hebrew word, meaning an ear of corn or a stream or river, from shabal, to grow, increase, flow, used by

Jephthah

JEPHTHAH

, probably in the second sense with reference to the river Jordan, as a test-word to distinguish the Ephraimites, who were unable to pronounce the sh, from the men of

Gilead

GILEAD (i.e. " hard " or " rugged," a name sometimes used, both in earlier and in later writers, to denote the whole of the territory occupied by the Israelites eastward of Jordan, extending from the Arnon to the southern
base
- BASE
of
Hermon
- HERMON
(Dent. xxxiv. 1; J

(see

Judges

JUDGES, THE
BOOK
- BOOK
OF

xii. 6) at the passage of the Jordan. The word ciceri was similarly used at the time of the massacre of the

French

known as the Sicilian

Vespers

VESPERS (officium vespertinum)
VESPERS, SICILIAN

, for they betrayed their nationality by their inability to pronounce it. The

term

TERM

has also come generally to mean a watchword, catch-phrase or cry, to which the members of a party adhere after any significance or meaning which it may have imported has disappeared.
See

ALPHABET

ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

, i. 725, for a discussion of the sibilant difficulty involved in the test of

Judges

JUDGES, THE
BOOK
- BOOK
OF

xii. 6.

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