Midvash

שָׁבַתshâbath

שָׁבַת: cease, desist, rest

Pronunciation: shaw-bath' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7673

Meanings

Qal

1. cease (Genesis 8:22; Joshua 5:12; Isaiah 14:4)

2. desist, rest, from labour

Niph`al: cease (Isaiah 17:3; Ezekiel 6:6; Ezekiel 30:18)

Hiph`il

1. cause to cease, put an end to (Hosea 2:13; 2 Chronicles 16:5; Nehemiah 4:5)

2. = exterminate, destroy (2 Kings 23:5; 2 Kings 23:11; Amos 8:4)

3. cause to desist (Ezekiel 16:41; Ezekiel 34:10; Exodus 5:5)

4. remove (Ezekiel 23:27; Ezekiel 23:48; Psalms 89:45)

5. cause to fail (Leviticus 2:12; Jeremiah 48:35; Ruth 4:14)

שָׁבַת: keep, observe, (sabbath)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 71 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 2:2 On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.
  • Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.
  • Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
  • Exodus 5:5 Look, there are many of your people in the land, and you are stopping them from their work.”
  • Exodus 12:15 For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.
  • Exodus 16:30 So the people did not gather any food on the seventh day.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).