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Word Summary
shabath: to cease, desist, rest
Original Word: שָׁבַת
Transliteration: shabath
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-bath')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cease, desist, rest
Meaning: to repose, desist from exertion
Strong's Concordance
cause to, let, make to cease, celebrate, cause make to fail

A primitive root; to repose, i.e. Desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific) -- (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7673. shabath

שָׁבַת‎71 verb cease, desist, rest (As šabâtu, probably cease, be completed DlWB ZimKAT 3. 593 (JenZA iv (1889), 277 f. is sceptical); Arabic cut off, interrupt; Late Hebrew has שֶׁבֶת‎ neglect, etc., Aramaic שִׁבְתָּא‎ cost of nealect); —

Qal27 Perfect3masculine singular ׳שׁ‎ Genesis 2:3 +; 3 plural שָׁבָ֑תוּ‎ Lamentations 5:14, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יִשְׁבּוֺת‎ Hosea 7:4; יִשְׁבֹּת‎ Proverbs 22:10 2t.; 3 feminine singular תִּשְׁבֹּת‎ Leviticus 26:35; תִּשְׁבַּת‎ 26:34; Nehemiah 6:3 +, etc.; —

1 cease: (absolute 13 t.) of seasons Genesis 8:22 (J); manna Joshua 5:12 (P), etc., Isaiah 14:4 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 6:3 +; with מִן‎ Hosea 7:4 3t.

2 desist from labour, rest:

a. with מִן‎ (of god) Genesis 2:2-3,(P).

b. מִן‎ omitted, ב‎ temporal Exodus 23:12 (E), 16:30; 34:21 (J), 31:17 (P); שׁ וּבַקָּצִיר ׳בֶּחָרִישׁ‎ 34:21 (J; i.e., even in these busy seasons).

c. land in 7th year Leviticus 26:34-35, (twice in verse) (H), 2 Chronicles 36:21. — Leviticus 23:32; 25:2 see [ שָׁבַת‎] verb denominative below

Niph`al Perfect3masculine singular נִשְׁבַּת‎ Isaiah 17:3 2t.; plural נִשְׁבְּתוּ‎ Ezekiel 6:6; — cease: absolute 6:6; 30:18; 33:28; with מִן‎ Isaiah 17:3.

Hiph`il40 Perfect3masculine singular הִשְׁבִּית‎ Ruth 4:14 +; 2 masculine singular הִשְׁבַּתָּ‎ Psalm 89:45; 119:119, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יַשְׁבִּיתּ‎ Proverbs 18:18; Daniel 9:27; וַיַּשְׁבֵּת‎ 2 Kings 23:11; 2 Chronicles 16:5, etc.; Infinitive construct הַשְׁבִּית‎ Psalm 8:3; לַשְׁבִּית‎ Amos 8:4 (Ges§ 53q); Imperative masculine plural הַשְׁבִּ֫יתוּ‎ Isaiah 30:11; Participle מַשְׁבִּית‎ Jeremiah 16:9; Psalm 46:10; —

1 cause to cease, put an end to: with accusative mirth Hosea 2:13, work 2 Chronicles 16:5; Nehemiah 4:5; sacrifice Daniel 9:27; war Psalm 46:10, compare Isaiah 13:11; Ezekiel 7:24; Proverbs 18:18 6t., + ׳הִשׁ מִן שָׂשׂוֺן קוֺל‎ Jeremiah 7:34; 16:9, compare 48:33.

2 = exterminate, destroy: with accusative 2 Kings 23:5, 11; Amos 8:4 (Now conjectures העשׁקים‎), Hosea 1:4; Psalm 8:3; 119:119; with accusative + מִן‎, Jeremiah 36:29, הָאָרֶץ מִן‎ Leviticus 26:6 (H), Ezekiel 34:25; אלילים‎ 30:13; Deuteronomy 32:26.

3 cause to desist from: with מִן‎ Ezekiel 16:41; 34:10; Exodus 5:5 (E = give rest from); לְבִלְתִּי‎ infinitive Joshua 22:25 (P).

4 remove ( = הֵסִיר מִן‎): with מִן‎ Ezekiel 23:27, 48; Psalm 89:45 (text dubious: read הִשְׁבַּתּוֺ‎ [

3] ᵐ5‎ Du; הֹדוֺ מַטֵּה‎ Herz Che, see also below טֳהָר‎); leaven מבתים‎ Exodus 12:15 (P); ׳הַשׁ ׳אֶחקֿ ׳ישׂר מִמָּנֵינוּ‎ Isaiah 30:11.

5 cause to fail, let be lacking: salt מִנְחָתֶ֑ךָ מֵעַל‎ Leviticus 2:12 (P); accusative pers + ל‎ person Jeremiah 48:35; Ruth 4:14.

[שָׁבַת‎] verb denominative keep, observe (sabbath); —

Qal, with accusative of congnate meaning with verb; Perfect3feminine singular לי ׳שַׁבָּת הָאָרֶץ וְשָֽׁבְתָה‎ Leviticus 25:2; 2masculine plural שַׁבַּתְּכֶ֑ם תִּשְׁבְּתוּ עַדעֶֿרֶב מֵעֶרֶב‎ 23:32 (P).





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