Limitless Word
שִׁבֹּלshibbôl/shib-bole/
HebrewH764118 occurrences (KJV)

a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch

KJV renders it: branch, channel, ear (of corn), (water-)flood, Shibboleth. Compare H5451 (סִבֹּלֶת).

Where it appears(showing the first 15 of 18)

  • Gen 41:5He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
  • Gen 41:6Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
  • Gen 41:7The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.
  • Gen 41:22I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:
  • Gen 41:23and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
  • Gen 41:24The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”
  • Gen 41:26The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.
  • Gen 41:27The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
  • Judg 12:6then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it right: then they seized him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.
  • Ruth 2:2Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
  • Job 24:24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
  • Ps 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • Isa 17:5It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
  • Isa 27:12It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
  • Zech 4:12I asked him the second time, “What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden oil out of themselves?”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.