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Stream

סִבֹּלֶתStrong’s H5451

sibbolet (sib-bo-let)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Sibbolet is the Hebrew word usually translated “sibboleth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“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.”
Judges 12:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Stream (as pronounced by Ephraimites)
How it's translated
  • sibboleth 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    סִבֹּלֶת sibbolet · stream

    stream (as pronounced by Ephraimites) § 1) an ear of grain or wheat

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “stream” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    STREAM, noun

    1. A current of water or other fluid; a liquid substance flowing in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river or brook, or from a vessel or other reservoir or fountain.
    2. A river, brook or rivulet.
    3. A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream
    4. A current of melted metal or other substance; as a stream of lead or iron flowing from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
    All definitions and other forms of “stream”
    1. Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand.
    2. A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. [Not used.]
    3. A current of air or gas, or of light.
    4. Current; drift; as of opinions or manners.
    5. Water.

    STREAM, verb intransitive

    1. To flow; to move or run in a continuous current.
    2. To emit; to pour out in abundance.
    3. To issue with continuance, not by fits.
    4. To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.
    5. To extend; to stretch in a long line; as a flag streaming in the wind.

    STREAM, verb transitive

    To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.