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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 856 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SHIBBOLETH , a See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew word, meaning an See also:

EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear of See also:

corn or a stream or See also:

RIVER

river, from shabal, to grow, increase, flow, used by See also:

JEPHTHAH

Jephthah, probably in the second sense with reference to the river See also:

Jordan, as a test-word to distinguish the Ephraimites, who were unable to pronounce the sh, from the men of See also:

GILEAD (i.e. " hard " or " rugged," a name sometimes used, both in earlier and in later writers, to denote the whole of the territory occupied by the Israelites eastward of Jordan, extending from the Arnon to the southern base of Hermon (Dent. xxxiv. 1; J

Gilead (see See also:

JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

Judges xii. 6) at the passage of the Jordan. The word ciceri was similarly used at the See also:

time of the See also:

MASSACRE

massacre of the See also:

French known as the Sicilian See also:

Vespers, for they betrayed their See also:

NATIONALITY

nationality by their inability to pronounce it. The See also:

TERM

term has also come generally to mean a watchword, catch-phrase or cry, to which the members of a party adhere after any significance or meaning which it may have imported has disappeared. See See also:

ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

ALPHABET, i. 725, for a discussion of the sibilant difficulty involved in the test of Judges xii. 6.

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