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Shibboleth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shibboleth (The West Wing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
" Shibboleth " is the 30th episode of The West Wing . The episode begins with a scene on the California coast, where a group of Chinese Christians have been apprehended by US agents. It turns out ...
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Thus when the Ephraimites from the west invaded Gilead, and were defeated by the Gileadites under the leadership of Jephthah, and tried to escape by the "passages of the Jordan," the Gileadites seized the fords and would allow none to pass who could not pronounce "shibboleth" with a strong aspirate.
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Concordances • Nave's Topical Bible » Shibboleth • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge » Language ... Encyclopedias • International Standard Bible Encyclopedia » Shibboleth ... Home > Dictionaries > Holman Bible Dictionary > SHIBBOLETH...
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Shibboleth is a tool for typing Unicode text in ancient scripts. It has embedded versions of all the necessary fonts, but you may wish to download the fonts for use in other applications. Users of Logos Bible Software may already have all of these fonts.
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Shibboleth: Judges 12:1-4 describes an interesting moment in the history of Israel. The people of Gilead had gone to war with the Ammonites, but had selfishly not invited their neighbour from Ephraim. This made the Ephraimites, who were always up for a bit of fight, really mad. ... Animals in the Bible...
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A Heb. word (meaning either a flowing stream or a head of grain), which the Gileadites under Jephthah used in order to discover which of their prisoners were Ephraimites. The Ephraimite pronunciation was Sibboleth (Judg. ... < Previous Next > ... The Scriptures Study Helps | Search | Options | Marked | Help | English...
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