shibboleth
The origin and history of shibboleth.
Etymology
Shibboleth is a learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew, where the original word meant an ear of grain or a stream. It reached English partly by way of Late Latin sebboleth in the Vulgate.
The origin and history of shibboleth.
Shibboleth is a learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew, where the original word meant an ear of grain or a stream. It reached English partly by way of Late Latin sebboleth in the Vulgate.
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