Judges 12:6 — they said to him, “Then say ‘Shibboleth.’ ” And he said, “Sibboleth,” for he co… — AMP | maBible

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6 they said to him, “Then say ‘Shibboleth.’ ” And he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites fell.

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Lit speak thus. The difference in pronunciation was between a Hebrew consonant with an “sh” sound, which the Ephraimites evidently did not have in their dialect, and another consonant with a sharp “s” sound. This difference was similar to that between the Hebrew greeting “Shalom,” and the greeting…

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