Then they said to him, Say now  Heb. tlbv, "Shibboleth," ear of corn; If translated at all, the English may as well be put as the Greek; Alex. sunyhma, q. d., watchword  Stachys; and he did not rightly pronounce it so: and they took him, and slew him at the fords of Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.