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Sibboleth

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: S

By: James P. Boyd

Judges 12:6

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(Judg. 12:6⁶Then 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)). [SHIBBOLETH.]

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