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Shibboleth
Shibboleth is the Hebrew word that, according to Judges 12, the Gileadites required people to pronounce at the fords of the Jordan in order to identify Ephraimites. The Ephraimites pronounced it "Sibboleth" and thereby revealed who they were.
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- Judges 12Bible
Judges 12 records the conflict between Jephthah and the Ephraimites, the episode in which Ephraimites were identified by their pronunciation of "Shibboleth," the death of Jephthah, and the accounts of the judges who succeeded him: Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon.
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- Judges 12:6
Then 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.
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