Definitions for shibboleth

shibboleth shib·bo·leth

Spelling: [shib-uh-lith, ‐leth]
IPA: /ˈʃɪb ə lɪθ, ‐ˌlɛθ/

Shibboleth is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 405 anagrams from letters in shibboleth (bbehhilost).

Definitions for shibboleth

noun

  1. a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.
  2. a slogan; catchword.
  3. a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth.

Origin of shibboleth

Hebrew shibbōleth literally, freshet, a word used by the Gileadites as a test to detect the fleeing Ephraimites, who could not pronounce the sound sh (Judges 12:4-6)

Examples for shibboleth

High warp and low warp are the terms so often used as to seem a shibboleth.

Herzog was never just a novel; from the beginning it was a symbol, a crucible, a shibboleth.

How tiresome the shibboleth which many clergymen talk in church is!

"And sold to——" became our slogan, our shibboleth and our most familiar sentence.

He did not repudiate the sincerely pious, because they could not say his “shibboleth.”

There is a crispness and sharpness about his tones—that shibboleth of militaryism.

This does not mean that all ethics lies compact in the shibboleth, Be yourself.

Progress, the white man's shibboleth, has no meaning for the Patagonian.

A Frenchman might as well try to give the password of shibboleth.

The shibboleth is always absurd and in a case like the present ruinous.

Word Value for shibboleth
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