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Judges 12

Judg. 12:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
they unto him, Say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
now κShibboleth
shibbol (Hebrew #7641)
from the same as 7640; a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
KJV usage: branch, channel, ear (of corn), ((water-))flood, Shibboleth. Compare 5451.
Pronounce: shib-bole
Origin: or (feminine) shibboleth {shib-bo'-leth}
: and he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
Sibboleth
cibboleth (Hebrew #5451)
an ear of grain
KJV usage: Sibboleth.
Pronounce: sib-bo'-leth
Origin: for 7641
: for he could not frame
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
to pronounce
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
it right
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
. Then they took
'achaz (Hebrew #270)
to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
KJV usage: + be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten, handle, portion, (get, have or take) possess(-ion).
Pronounce: aw-khaz'
Origin: a primitive root
him, and slew
shachat (Hebrew #7819)
to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)
KJV usage: kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.
Pronounce: shaw-khat'
Origin: a primitive root
him at the passages
ma`abar (Hebrew #4569)
from 5674; a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming
KJV usage: ford, place where...pass, passage.
Pronounce: mah-ab-awr'
Origin: or feminine mapabarah {mah-ab-aw-raw'}
of Jordan
Yarden (Hebrew #3383)
a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
KJV usage: Jordan.
Pronounce: yar-dane'
Origin: from 3381
: and there fell
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
at that time
`eth (Hebrew #6256)
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
KJV usage: + after, (al-)ways, X certain, + continually, + evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-)tide, ((meal-)), what) time, when.
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: from 5703
of the Ephraimites
'Ephrayim (Hebrew #669)
double fruit; Ephrajim, a son of Joseph; also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
KJV usage: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Pronounce: ef-rah'-yim
Origin: dual of masculine form of 672
forty
'arba`iym (Hebrew #705)
forty
KJV usage: -forty.
Pronounce: ar-baw-eem'
Origin: multiple of 702
and two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
thousand
'eleph (Hebrew #505)
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV usage: thousand.
Pronounce: eh'-lef
Origin: prop, the same as 504
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κ
Which signifieth a stream, or, flood,
Psa. 69:2,15• 2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
 15Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:2,15)
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Isa. 27:12• 12And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, ye children of Israel. (Isa. 27:12)
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More on:

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Ephraimite,
Jordan,
Passage,
River,
Shibboleth,
Sibboleth

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Say now.
Matt. 26:73• 73And after a little, those who stood there, coming to him, said to Peter, Truly *thou* too art of them, for also thy speech makes thee manifest. (Matt. 26:73)
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Mark 14:70• 70And he again denied. And again, after a little, those that stood by said to Peter, Truly thou art one of them, for also thou art a Galilean. (Mark 14:70)
Shibboleth.
which signifieth a stream, or flood.
Psa. 69:2,15• 2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of waters, and the flood overfloweth me.
 15Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:2,15)
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Isa. 27:12• 12And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, ye children of Israel. (Isa. 27:12)
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Isa. 27•  (Isa. 27)
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{Shibboleth} also means an ear of corn, (Job 24:24,) and {sibboleth} signifies a burden, (Ex 6:6;) and a heavy burden they were obliged to bear who could not pronounce this test letter.
It is well known that several nations cannot pronounce certain letters.
The sound of th cannot be pronounced by the Persians, no more than by some of our Continental neighbours; though it is a common sound among the Arabians.
To this day, many of the German Jews cannot articulate [t] th, for which they substitute ss; thus for {baith,} a house, they say {baiss.}there fell.
Prov. 17:14• 14The beginning of contention is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off strife before it become vehement. (Prov. 17:14)
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Prov. 18:19• 19A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace. (Prov. 18:19)
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Eccl. 10:12• 12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool swallow up himself. (Eccl. 10:12)
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Matt. 12:25• 25But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not subsist. (Matt. 12:25)
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Gal. 5:15• 15but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another. (Gal. 5:15)
forty.{Arbäim ooshenayim aleph,} "forty and two thousand."
Here the [w,] and, may mean simple addition; and this number may denote 2,040 and not 42,000.
At the last census of the Israelites (Nu 26:37) the whole tribe of Ephraim only amounted to 32,500, compared with which this last number appears far too great.
• A Shibboleth, a formula used for the name of Jehovah, and which had nothing to do with the truth of God. (“Fresh Declension and Fresh Revivals: Strife Between Brethren: Judges 12:1-16” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then they said to him, Say now Shibbolethb! and he said, Sibboleth, and did not manage to pronounce it rightly. Then they took him, and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.

JND Translation Notes

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Meaning, "stream" or "flood."