Stream
שִׁבֹּ֫לֶתStrong’s H7641shibbol (shib-bol)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shibbol is the Hebrew word usually translated “ears of grain”, “shibboleth” and “among the ears of grain”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?”
Meaning
- Flowing stream
- Ear (of grain), head of grainas growing · cluster
- Means: growing ear (of grain), flowing stream
How it's translated
- ears of grain 6
- the ears of grain 6
- shibboleth 1
- among the ears of grain 1
- grain 1
- and a flood 1
- a flood of 1
- from flowing stream of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 8
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- Judges 1
- Ruth 1
- Job 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:5And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
- Genesis 41:6And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.
- Genesis 41:7And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:22And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
- Genesis 41:23And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:
- Genesis 41:24And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת shibbol · stream
flowing stream
שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת shibbol · ear
1) ear (of grain), head of grain 1a) as growing 1b) cluster
שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת shibbol · Shibboleth
means: growing ear (of grain), flowing stream used as a password
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
- 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.
- A river, brook or rivulet.
- A current of water in the ocean; as the gulf stream
- 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”
- Any thing issuing from a source and moving with a continued succession of parts; as a stream of words; a stream of sand.
- A continued current of course; as a stream of weather. [Not used.]
- A current of air or gas, or of light.
- Current; drift; as of opinions or manners.
- Water.
STREAM, verb intransitive
- To flow; to move or run in a continuous current.
- To emit; to pour out in abundance.
- To issue with continuance, not by fits.
- To issue or shoot in streaks; as light streaming from the east.
- 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.