Sabbath
שַׁבָּתStrong’s H7676shabbat (shab-bat)
Appears in 89 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shabbat is the Hebrew word usually translated “sabbath”, “sabbaths my” and “sabbath of”. It appears in 89 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.”
Meaning
- Sabbath
How it's translated
- the sabbath 45
- sabbaths my 14
- a sabbath 8
- a sabbath of 7
- sabbath 6
- sabbaths its 4
- for the sabbaths 4
- on the sabbath 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 18
- Ezekiel 15
- Exodus 13
- Nehemiah 10
- 2 Chronicles 6
- Isaiah 6
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 16:25And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
- Exodus 16:26Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
- Exodus 16:29See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
- Exodus 20:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Exodus 20:10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
- Exodus 20:11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
All 89 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁבָּת shabbat · Sabbath
Sabbath 1a) sabbath 1b) day of atonement 1c) sabbath year 1d) week 1e) produce (in sabbath year)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sabbath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SABBATH, noun
- The day which God appointed to be observed by the Jews as a day of rest from all secular labor or employments, and to be kept holy and consecrated to his service and worship.
- Intermission of pain or sorrow; time of rest.
- The sabbatical year among the Israelites. Leviticus 25:2
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.