- Shibboleth by Webster's
... n.) Hence, the criterion, test or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.(n.) A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.(n.) Also in an extended sense.
- Shibboleth by Shawn Valdez
In the Bible, test word that the Gileadites made the Ephraimites pronounce. As Ephraimites could not say sh but only s. As in "Sibboleth," this was regarded as a test of an Ephraimite; 42,000 Ephraimites were thus detected.
- Password by Kayla Wilson
Open, Sesame!formula that opened the door to the robbers’ cave. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights. ]shibbolethby its pronunciation the Gileadites could identify Ephraimite fugitives. [O. T.: Judges 12:4-6 ...
- Jephtha by Amber Murphy
... a band of brigands. When the Gileadites were oppressed by an Ammonite army, they asked Jephtha to aid them. He led them to victory, having first promised God a sacrifice of whatever he first saw when he left his house; his first sight happened to be his daughter. His significance in the Book of Judges is as an exemplar of Israel's fidelity to God.
- Gilead by Tiffany Rodriguez
In the Bible.1 Eponym of the Gileadites, grandson of Manasseh.2 Gadite.3 Jephthah's father.4 City near Mizpah, denounced by Hosea. 5 Fertile, mountainous region, NE of the Dead Sea. In the Bible, it was allotted to Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh and was noted for ...