SHIBBOLETH

Jordan, and commanded, if the Ephraimites passed that way, that they should pronounce the word SHIBBOLETH; but they, being of a different tribe, pronounced it SIBBOLETH, which trifling defect proved them spies, and cost them their lives; and there fell that day, at the different passes on the banks of the river Jordan, forty and two thousand.

The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan

AND TOKEN OF A PASS; the pass is the word SHIBBOLETH; the token, alias the pass-grip, is given, as before described, by taking each other by the right hand, as if shaking hands, and placing the thumb between the forefinger and second finger, at the third joint, or where they join the hand, and pressing it hard enough to attract attention.

The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan

After the Junior Warden has received the pass SHIBBOLETH, he inquires,

The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan

This is the pass-grip of a Fellow Craft Mason; the name of it is SHIBBOLETH.

The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan

The Senior Deacon whispers in the Junior Deacon's ear, "SHIBBOLETH."

The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan

(See [315] SHIBBOLETH.) "Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead" (7).

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897