Sabbath Definition

săbəth
noun
The seventh day of the week (Saturday), set aside for rest and worship and observed as such by Jews (from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset) and some Christian denominations.
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Sunday as the usual Christian day of rest and worship.
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A day or time set aside for rest or worship.
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Witches' Sabbath.

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Synonyms:
adjective
Of the Sabbath.
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Other Word Forms of Sabbath

Noun

Singular:
Sabbath
Plural:
sabbaths

Origin of Sabbath

  • Middle English sabat from Old French sabbat Old English sabat both from Latin sabbatum from Greek sabbaton from Hebrew šabbāt from šābat to cease, rest šbt in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sabbath Sentence Examples

  • As most of the records appealed to are from temple archives, it may be expected that the Sabbath days would show an increased number of records.

  • But this certainly was not the leading point of view with the mass of the Rabbins; 1 and at any rate it is quite certain that the synagogue is a post-exilic institution, and therefore that the Sabbath in old Israel must have been entirely different from the Sabbath of the Scribes.

  • Attitude of Jesus.--So far, therefore, as the Sabbath existed for any end outside itself it was an institution to help every Jew to learn the law, and from this point of view it is.

  • Hosea even takes it for granted that in captivity the Sabbath will be suspended, like all the other feasts, because in his day a feast implied a sanctuary.

  • The grammatical form of shabbath suggests a transitive sense, "the divider," and apparently indicates the Sabbath as dividing the month.

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