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• שִׁבֹּלֶת , שִׁבֹּלֶת
• שַׁבְּלולּ

A word by which the Gileadites distinguished an Ephraimite from his inability to sound the sh in the word, and so discovered whether he was friend or foe; hence it has come to denote a party cry or watchword.