SHIBBOLETH  , a See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew word, meaning an See also:

• EAR (common Teut.; O.E. are, Ger. Ohr, Du. oor, akin to Lat. auris, Gr. ovs)

ear of See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn or a stream or See also:

• RIVER

river, from shabal, to grow, increase, flow, used by See also:

• JEPHTHAH

Jephthah, probably in the second sense with reference to the river See also:

• JORDAN (the down-comer; Arab. esh-Sheri'a, the watering-place)
• JORDAN, CAMILLE (1771—1821)
• JORDAN, DOROTHEA (1762—1816)
• JORDAN, THOMAS (1612 ?–1685)
• JORDAN, WILHELM (1819–1904)

Jordan, as a test-word to distinguish the Ephraimites, who were unable to pronounce the sh, from the men of See also:

• GILEAD (i.e. " hard " or " rugged," a name sometimes used, both in earlier and in later writers, to denote the whole of the territory occupied by the Israelites eastward of Jordan, extending from the Arnon to the southern base of Hermon (Dent. xxxiv. 1; J

Gilead (see See also:

• JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

Judges xii . 6) at the passage of the Jordan . The word ciceri was similarly used at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the See also:

• MASSACRE

massacre of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French known as the Sicilian See also:

• VESPERS (officium vespertinum)
• VESPERS, SICILIAN

Vespers, for they betrayed their See also:

• NATIONALITY

nationality by their inability to pronounce it . The See also:

• TERM

term has also come generally to mean a watchword, catch-phrase or cry, to which the members of a party adhere after any significance or meaning which it may have imported has disappeared . See See also:

• ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

ALPHABET, i . 725, for a discussion of the sibilant difficulty involved in the test of Judges xii . 6 .