noun · neuter
sebbōleth
sebbōleth n (indeclinable)
Classical[sɛbˈboː.ɫɛtʰ]Ecclesiastical[sebˈbɔː.let]
Meaning
- Late Latinindeclinableshibboleth
interrogabant eum dic ergo sebboleth quod interpretatur spica qui respondebat tebboleth eadem littera spicam exprimere non valens statimque adprehensum iugulabant in ipso Iordanis transitu et ceciderunt in illo tempore de Ephraim quadraginta duo milia
Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Iudicum 12:6:
Origins
Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew שִׁבֹּלֶת /שיבולת (šibbṓleṯ, “ear [of wheat] or stream, torrent”).
Descendants
- Italianshibboletfrom Renaissance Latin scibbōleth
- Italianshibolethfrom Renaissance Latin scibbōleth
- Frenchschibbolethfrom Renaissance Latin scibbōleth
- Frenchshibbolethfrom Renaissance Latin scibbōleth
- Frenchshibboletfrom Renaissance Latin scibbōleth
- Middle Englishsebolechfrom Medieval Latin sebbōlech
- Russianшибболе́тfrom Renaissance Latin scibbōleth
- Early Modern Englishsebboleth
- Old Frenchseboleth