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Latin
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew שִׁבֹּלֶת / שיבולת (šibbṓleṯ, “ear or stream, torrent”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sebbōleth n (indeclinable)
- (Late Latin) shibboleth
Late 4th century, Jerome , transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Iudicum 12:6: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- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
c. 700, Codex Ottobonianus lat. 66, f. 295v:
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