英语词汇shibboleth的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

shibboleth. Perhaps only racial, religious, and national slurs have killed as many men as this word. Shibboleth has been ex- tended to signify a catchphrase, especially one used so often that it has lost its effectiveness. But it still means a “password,” which was its original biblical meaning. The word, deriving from the Hebrew shibboleth, for “stream in flood” or “ear of corn,” is first recorded in Judges 12:1–16, where the Gileadites used it to pick out the sons of Ephraim from the members of other tribes. Jephthah’s men slew 42,000 Ephraimites, who couldn’t pronounce the sh in the password shibboleth and had to say “sibboleth.” See hula-hula.

词汇	shibboleth
词源	shibboleth. Perhaps only racial, religious, and national slurs have killed as many men as this word. Shibboleth has been ex- tended to signify a catchphrase, especially one used so often that it has lost its effectiveness. But it still means a “password,” which was its original biblical meaning. The word, deriving from the Hebrew shibboleth, for “stream in flood” or “ear of corn,” is first recorded in Judges 12:1–16, where the Gileadites used it to pick out the sons of Ephraim from the members of other tribes. Jephthah’s men slew 42,000 Ephraimites, who couldn’t pronounce the sh in the password shibboleth and had to say “sibboleth.” See hula-hula.
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