Unscramble

s 1 h 4 i 1 b 3 b 3 o 1 l 1 e 1 t 1 h 4

10 letters · 20 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a favorite saying of a sect or political group

noun a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people

originLearned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew שִׁבֹּלֶת /שיבולת (šibbṓleṯ, “ear [of wheat] or stream, torrent”). Doublet of sebboleth and Middle English sebolech, both from Late Latin sebboleth in the Vulgate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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