Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth - This is a curious instance of dialectal difference of pronunciation between the East and West Jordanic…

Say now Shibboleth. —The word means “ford” (Psalms 69:2); “depth of waters” (Judges 12:15); “wate…

Then said they unto him, say now "Shibboleth"
Which signifies a stream or course of water, at which they now were; a…

The Ephraimites had the same quarrel with Jephthah as with Gideon. Pride was at the bottom of the quarrel; only by that comes contention. It is wro…