shibol · ear of grain

What it means

shibol (שִׁבֹּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ear of grain”.

Also a flowing stream.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The head of wheat or barley where the kernels are.
2. A flood of water.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ears ×13
• current ×2
• Shibboleth ×1
• branches ×1
• flowing stream ×1
• grain ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×10
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×3
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 41:5

  He fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and look, seven ears of grain were coming up on one stalk, plump and good.

• Genesis 41:6

  And look, seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them.

• Genesis 41:7

  The thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh woke up, and look, it was a dream.

• Genesis 41:22

  I saw in my dream, and look, seven ears coming up on one stalk, full and good.

• Genesis 41:23

  And look, seven ears, withered, thin, scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them.

• Genesis 41:24

  The thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. I told it to the magicians, but there is no one who can declare it to me.”

• Genesis 41:26

  The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream is one.

• Genesis 41:27

  And the seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears, scorched by the east wind, will be seven years of famine.

• Judges 12:6

  Then they would say to him, “Say, please, ‘Shibboleth.’” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he could not say it that way. Then they would seize him and slaughter him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time, of Ephraim, forty-two thousand.

• Ruth 2:2

  And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go, please, to the field and glean among the ears of grain behind the one in whose eyes I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

• Job 24:24

  They are exalted a little while, and are gone; and they are brought low, like all they are gathered up, and like the heads of grain they wither.

• Psalms 69:2

  I have sunk in the mire of the depths, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the current sweeps me away.

• Psalms 69:15

  Let not the current of waters sweep me away, nor the depths swallow me, nor the well close its mouth over me.

• Isaiah 17:5

  And it will be as when one gathers the harvest, the standing grain, and his arm reaps the ears; and it will be like one who gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.

• Isaiah 27:12

  And it will happen on that day that YHWH will beat out the grain from the flowing stream of the River to the torrent of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel.

• Zechariah 4:12

  And I answered a second time and said to him, “What are the two branches of the olive trees that are beside the two golden tubes that empty out of themselves the gold?”

And 3 more times.