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Words
שָׁבַת H7673
- Home gloss
- sabbath (v.): sabbathed
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- rested
- Note
- To cease, stop (Gen 8:22; Josh 5:12, the manna "sabbathed"). The English loanword keeps the root of שַׁבָּת. "Rest" is kept for נוּחַ (Exod 20:11 וַיָּנַח, which retells 2:2–3 with that verb).
- Rulings
- 5
Occurrences (3)
- 2:2 And Elohim finished on the seventh day his work that he had done; and he sabbathed on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
- 2:3 And Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on it he sabbathed from all his work that Elohim had created to make.
- 8:22 Still, all the days of the land, seed and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not sabbath."