*"Let me go over"* or, as the phrase seemed to mean, *"Let me shibboleth."* But the dialect of the Ephraimites prevented them from giving the password of life. This was most fitting, since the Ephraimites had challenged the Gileadites this way: *“Why did you shibboleth (pass over) to fight against the children of Ammon."* The implicit answer must have been, "because we had been given the divine password." Scripture: [[Judges 12#^a9e83e]] #jot