Strong's Hebrew: 7641. שִׁבֳּלִים (shibbol or shibboleth) -- ear (of grain)

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Lexicon

shibbol or shibboleth: ear (of grain)

Original Word: שִׁבֳּלִים
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: shibbol or shibboleth
Phonetic Spelling: (shib-bole)
Short Definition: ears

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from the same as shobel
Definition
ear (of grain)
NASB Translation
branches (1), ears (10), ears of grain (3), grain (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine flowing stream; — ׳שׁ absolute Psalm 69:3, as test of dialect Judges 12:6 (compare סִבֹּלֶת and GFM); construct מַיִם ׳שׁ Psalm 69:16, הַנָּהָר ׳שׁ Isaiah 27:12.

II. שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת noun feminine ear of grain; — ׳שׁ absolute Job 24:21 +; plural שִׁבֳּלִים Genesis 41:5 +, construct שִׁבֳּלֵי Zechariah 4:12; — ear, Genesis 41:5,6,7: Genesis 41:7; Genesis 41:22; Genesis 41:23; Genesis 41:24 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:26,27; Isaiah 17:5 (twice in verse); Ruth 2:2; Job 24:24; transf. spike (Pusey), end of olive bough Zechariah 4:12.

Strong's

branch, channel, ear of corn, water, flood, Shibboleth

Or (feminine) shibboleth {shib-bo'-leth}; from the same as shebel; a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch -- branch, channel, ear (of corn), ((water-))flood, Shibboleth. Compare cibboleth.

see HEBREW shebel

see HEBREW cibboleth