Judges 12:6
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.”
כֵּן
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
נָא
please
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נָא
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
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כּוּן
he gave attention
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כּוּן
To be firm, to be established, to be ready. Kun. God establishes what He builds. He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.
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מַעֲבָר
the fords of
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מַעֲבָר
a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain, a pass); abstractly, a transit, i.e. (figuratively) overwhelming
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שִׁבֹּל
Shibboleth
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שִׁבֹּל
a stream (as flowing); also an ear of grain (as growing out); by analogy, a branch
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סִבֹּלֶת
Sibboleth
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סִבֹּלֶת
an ear of grain
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