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Word Study · Strong's H7641 · Hebrew

שִׁבֹּל

shibbol

shib-bole

Strong's 1890 spelling: shibbôl

a stream (as flowing)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch

Rendered in the KJV as

branch, channel, ear (of corn), (water-)flood, Shibboleth. Compare H5451 (סִבֹּלֶת).

  • 19
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 16
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 19 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 16

  • שִׁבֳּלִ֗ים2
  • שִׁבֳּלִ֔ים2
  • שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת2
  • בַשִׁבֳּלִ֔ים1
  • הַֽשִׁבֳּלִ֖ים1
  • הַֽשִׁבֳּלִים֙1
  • הַשִּׁבֳּלִ֣ים1
  • הַֽשִּׁבֳּלִ֔ים1
  • הַֽשִּׁבֳּלִים֙1
  • הָשִׁבֳּלִ֣ים1
  • וְשִׁבֹּ֥לֶת1
  • מִשִּׁבֹּ֥לֶת1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 9

  • ears of grain6
  • the ears of grain6
  • [the] clusters of1
  • a flood of1
  • among the ears of grain1
  • and a flood1
  • from [the] flowing stream of1
  • grain1
  • Shibboleth1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 9

  • noun · masculine plural6
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1
  • noun · feminine singular1
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • noun · feminine singular1
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmpa · 6
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 6
  • HC/Ncfsa · 1
  • HNcfsa · 1
  • HNcfsc · 1
  • HNcmpc · 1
  • HNtfsa · 1
  • HR/Ncfsc · 1
  • HRd/Ncmpa · 1

All 19, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis10 occurrences
Judges1 occurrence
Ruth1 occurrence
Job1 occurrence
Psalms2 occurrences
Isaiah3 occurrences
Zechariah1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).